Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billed as a "guide to the books everyone talks about and some people even read," Spy Notes satirizes hip, urban novels. A chapter synopsis of a Tama Janowitz novel: "Eleanor goes to Wilfredo's apartment for a dinner party. The couples are all men. The reader understands that Wilfredo is homosexual. Eleanor does not. This is called dramatic irony...
...captors extended the deadline for his execution by 48 hours, there was cautious optimism at the White House that diplomatic efforts were paying off. That mood was sorely tested on Thursday morning, when the kidnapers turned the screws further with the release of a videotape in which Cicippio read a statement urging quick action for the release of Obeid. The tape ended with Cicippio painfully bidding farewell to his wife. But just 45 minutes before he was due to be executed, Hizballah lifted its death threat indefinitely, though with the condition that it was now seeking release of further prisoners...
...possible that if Shaw had imagined his life instead of living it, he might have turned it into another best seller. As Michael Shnayerson's admirably researched and readable biography demonstrates, the story has all the elements of a good airplane read: an energetic and engaging protagonist who transcends humble Brooklyn Jewish origins to become a symbol of his generation's promise before he is 30; war years in which he serves as a member of a dashing documentary-film unit, enabling him to meet all the right people from Cairo to London and to see just enough action...
When Cavazos was sent by President Bush on a trip to Bolivia last weekend, the IEM was promised that Williams would read a copy of Cavazos' speech. But, as one IEM member said, "I hope that wasn't Cavazos' original speech...
...sports have been written about so thoroughly by so many authors, from Izaak Walton to Ernest Hemingway and Tom McGuane. You search for what fathers or uncles in an earlier generation used to pass down over dinner tables or around campfires: secrets of the water, hints about how to read streams and tread them lightly, how to intuit the mysterious nature of the wild trout...