Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Start your engines, gentlemen," Carey could pen to an army of Anderzhons deployed from the Oregon plateau to the piedmont of the Carolinas. The visceral roar of the nation's 640,000 combines, were they all gathered in one spot for the harvest assault, would dwarf the sound of Patton's tanks pushing toward Bastogne. Yet the only violence would be to cornstalks and soybean plants, and in that death is life. "The thing about farming," writes Carey "is it's so easy, half of it is learning to kill...
Equally, and perhaps more impressive, was the effect during the "Harvard signers of the Declaration of Independence" segment. After actors portrayed seven alum signatories, a lighted hand with a pen "wrote" a huger-than-life John Hancock across center-stage in more fireworks...
Today the pampered pigs travel first-class in their own custom trailer, equipped with fans over each pen and a system that changes the air inside every two minutes. Their 100-gal. on-board water supply is laced with sulfa powder and penicillin to ward off scours, the dread hog diarrhea. Each year the company holds a contest among employees to name the racers. Samples from this year's roster: Hamtastic, Leaping Loin, Chop Sooee, Boared Stiff, Charlie Choplin...
...create these tales Rendell has spent quite a lot of time thinking about unpleasant people. The central character in Live Flesh, Rendell's 31st book of fiction in 22 years, is a rapist, mutilator and murderer. A Dark-Adapted Eye, Rendell's first under a new pen name, Barbara Vine, imagines a murder preceded by intimations of incest, infanticide and homosexual child molestation, all within the bosom of an apparently conventional and loving clan...
...more of a star than most of the characters she used to profile. After a few years, she writes her first novel, a steamy social satire and, of course, a sure best seller. It is the kind of dizzying ascent that Sally Quinn, the Washington Post's famous acid pen of the '70s, might have chronicled with flair. But she can't: the reporter-turned- hostessturned-novelist is Sally Quinn...