Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mailer's accomplishment--and it is, after all, the purpose he set for himself--is to turn Oswald, that historical smudge, into a troubled, touching human being, rounded and vulnerable and ultimately, Mailer thinks, fatally grandiose: a nut case and nonentity with Hitler-scale dreams. There is perverse American poignancy in the newlyweds' Minsk days, when Lee dreamed of having a son, to be named David, who would grow up to be President...
...killer while still a teenager and, as a result of that, an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium during his high school years. But what he has been most consistently, through all the splendidly entertaining capers and calamities that Helprin invents for him, is what people call, in short, a nut...
...what about fossil Grant Fuhr? After getting traded to Los Angeles to be reunited with old buddy Wayne Gretzky (The Great One wouldn't have anything to do with that, would he?), the golfing nut hasn't helped out Kelley Hrudey with...
...hero of Mark Helprin's new novel (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24) has been, variously, a U. S. fighter pilot, a billionaire, a bank robber, a convicted killer and an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium. But what he is most is a bit of a nut, which he demonstrates principally through his lifelong war against the evils of coffee.TIME critic John Skowsays "If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every few pages....They certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange...
...this Potemkin village is as it seems. Las Lisas traffics not in local cuisine or local color but in a dream--the dream of traveling to America. The food hut is actually a check-in station for refugees and their machete-strapped buscones (guides). The men under the nut tree are lookouts, who meet groups of would-be immigrants arriving from Santo Domingo and direct them to hiding places in safe houses and the surrounding jungle. Makeshift boats--weighted down by rocks and submerged in the stream near town--are waiting to take the travelers to the U.S. commonwealth...