Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neves' family. At the same time, senior government officials reportedly met to decide what to do in the event of the President-elect's death. Vice President Jose Sarney, 54, concluded that he could no longer keep official matters on hold. "I'm going to start wielding my pen," he said after the fourth operation. "Regardless of the respect I have for President Tancredo Neves, the interests of the country are at stake." At week's end the country focused on the question repeatedly asked by Neves at the time of his third operation: "How much longer? How soon...
...rare that two playwrights of international stature are cast together in a real-life drama, but that is what happened when Arthur Miller, 69, and Harold Pinter, 54, traveled to Turkey for PEN, the international association of writers in which both are vice presidents of their national sections. Miller and Pinter spent five days meeting with Turkish politicians and fellow writers as well as monitoring progress in the trial of 48 members of the Turkish Peace Association. The defendants, most of whom are writers, have been on trial for 18 months and face prison terms of from five...
...child of two French teachers, and he read French at Oxford. At 39, he has published two previous novels and held some Establishment literary jobs, including ones at the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. At the moment, he writes television criticism for the Observer. Under a pen name, Dan Kavanagh, he has produced two mysteries about a low-life London ex-policeman. They read fast and gamy, and --rare for a learned man who takes to writing suspense--they contain virtually no literary allusions. But then, wearing knowledge lightly is Barnes' great asset...
...EXAMPLE, when I walk into the Coop and ask "Where are the pens?" I never get an answer. The sales girl is always far more interested in my cultural handicap than she is in the fact that I want a pen, and asks "Where are you from...
...assimilation and finally to a resurgence of identity through the nation of Israel. There are anecdotes from the old country and stories about the rise from respectable poverty to even more respectable affluence. Goodkind relives his bar mitzvah and metamorphosis from yeshiva boy to "Vicomte de Brag," his pen name on the Columbia student paper. The tone and texture of these recollections are wearily familiar, a point that even the author seems to concede: "The reader has been at big wedding receptions, and if you picture as fancy a one as you ever...