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...long way toward understanding what's in the head and heart of Michael Pritchard with one detail from his resume. In 1980, when he won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, he was also named California Probation Officer of the Year for his work with kids locked up in juvenile hall. It was the kids, in fact, who persuaded him to try stand-up comedy. If he could get laughs out of hard-core punks like them, they reasoned, he ought to go cash...
...American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest sequences in American fiction," Sabbath goes down to the beach near his childhood home, wrapped in an American Flag, and with the accumulated force of 400 pages, soliloquies, "The Atlantic is a powerful ocean. Death is a terrible thing...It was all remarkable. Goodbye...
Delia is a pop singer who leaves a mean husband and two baby daughters in Cayro, Ga., to run off to Los Angeles with rock star Randall Pritchard and his pretty-good band, Mud Dog. Ten years later, her homing instinct kicks in after Randall is killed in the spectacular motorcycle wreck that hooks the reader on the first page of the novel...
...original edition reportedly spurred a sympathetic Tripp to contemplate her own book on the Clinton White House. Had she written it, she would have joined a Regnery stable that includes R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor of the American Spectator; detective Fuhrman, a Goldberg client; and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, England's premier Clinton hater. Is there an ominous pattern here? No, says Regnery's associate publisher, Richard Vigilante. "Our primary relationship to conservatives," he says, "is that we're gadflies and contrarians...
...grinch when the Gipper is ailing? The tightest-fisted among us would not want to turn around and see Rancho del Subdivision--though in this case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust, calls the purchase "highly irregular," given that the fund for taking care of well-established parks is in "desperate shape." And California Democratic Congressman George Miller says he finds no justification for paying millions to a President who railed against pork...