Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first novel, V. (1963), with its fusion of paranoia and surrealism, provided one of the most impressive literary debuts of the decade. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), shorter and more straightforward than its predecessor, won more converts to the growing Pynchon cult. And the encyclopedic Gravity's Rainbow (1973) stunned both critics and readers as the most ambitious American novel since Moby Dick...
This statement, coming from the author of Gravity's Rainbow, is simply not credible. If he can absorb and then brilliantly embellish the scientific progress that led up to the development of the V-2 rocket, he can look up tendril in a dictionary. And Pynchon's stories are not as bad as he claims. The Small Rain rather artfully juxtaposes the tedium of peacetime Army service, a catastrophic hurricane and sex. The Secret Integration accurately catches the locutions of an alcoholic jazz musician. Under the Rose is an evocative spy story set in a kind of operetta...
Jackson is no longer a positive force in the nomination race. He argues that liberal whites do not support him for racial reasons, but his charges ring of hypocrisy and petty opportunism. He calls for a "Rainbow Coalition," while sharing campaign platforms with a man who threatened death to a Black "Uncle Tom" reporter...
Among New York's other minorities, Jackson ran only well enough to make his Rainbow Coalition a bit less monochromatic. He won less than a quarter of the Hispanic vote, about 10% of the votes of Asian Americans and a mere 6% to 7% of white ballots. Nonetheless, the tide of black votes pushed his statewide total to 26%, his best primary showing to date...
...Some of us from the South felt as though we didn't need his [Jackson's] candidacy, and really didn't want it. We've been building multi-racial politics: we've already got rainbow coalitions," Young said...