Word: rafe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapped from giving too many blow jobs; we learn all about her dysfunctional family; and we hear about her Bacchanalian exploits in the Adams House of yore. The book is written as a straight narrative, interspersed with italicized, stream-of-consciousness peeks into Wurtzel's head ("Why hasn't Rafe called he's disappearing he's leaving me like everyone else he promised he wouldn't but he is I know it oh my God I want to die right here right now..."). All of the chapters, with their catchy, rock 'n' roll titles like "Drinking in Dallas" and "Woke...
Such resistance should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the passions unleashed in Washington by the thought of economic sacrifice. "If any of these fuel-tax options were politically easy, we would have done them already," says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute. Some of the impact could be softened by measures like a cut in the stiff Social Security payroll tax. Even so, if Clinton hopes to pare down the deficit, he will have to persuade voters to share the pain and then stick to his guns against all the opponents that...
...cars, homes and industries of France. While these emissions will stop when the fires are put out, the gas will remain aloft for 100 years. Trying to reduce CO2 output by an equivalent amount will be difficult, even for the world's largest economies, says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at Washington's World Resources Institute...
...sudden death of a parent. For Boatner, getting through the first year after "the one man involved in my creation ended for good and in my presence" seems like an insurmountable hurdle (one Price himself faced at age 21). For most of the summer, Boatner does not know that Rafe has suffered a similar experience--his mother was murdered while he looked on--and that is what has rendered him so fragile. Yet Boatner somehow knows he alone can save Rafe from tragedy...
Boatner finds himself as an artist that summer, producing a painting that stands the test of time. Happy, with two sons of his own by the book's end, Boatner, whose mission in life is to "copy things that count in the world," can no longer see Rafe's beautiful face clearly enough to paint him. He can only remember what matters, that he did for Rafe what he could not do for his father...