Word: rhonda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eighteen-year-old prostitute who can "suck point off a Chevy" and her partner. Banana Mac Parker, introduce an add assemblage populating Montgomery between 1918 and 1928. These include the aristocratic Banastre family, whose men patronize Blue Rhonda Latrec and Banana Mac. The younger Banastre roam from Yale Law School to incestuous beds, while their stunning mother. Hortensia, appears to epitomize Montgomery's last dispassionate bastion of social standards. But her frigid facade soon crumbles when she meets a gentle young man half her age, and their affair entangles Montgomery, from its upper echelons to the railroad station's streetwalkers...
Brown's omniscient narrator exhibits her preference for Blue Rhonda and her professional colleagues, but eventually allows readers to glimpse some love in the beautiful mansions. Realizing that these diverse classes will all contribute to the future. Brown portrays the next generation's hope as a bright mulatto child. Catherine Despite its span of only a decade. Southern Discomfort stresses awareness of past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown...
...from Brown's earlier and very popular Rubyfruit Jungle. That superb novel focuses on one woman, and presents an affectionate, humorous study of growing up gay in the South. Southern Discomfort tackles a broader range of restrictions; these characters must negotiate wealth and race as well as sexuality. Blue Rhonda, Hortensia and Catherine alternate in the role of protagonist, but the book lacks on central character with whom a reader can identify. This results in a more distanced, although no less sensitive book. Perhaps Southern Discomfort has less warmth than Rita Mae Brown's earlier efforts, but it is certainly...
...facing the wall, the gunmen began shooting. Three of the victims were killed; five were wounded. Franklin Freeman Jr., 22, Ricky Sanders, 25, and Carletha Stewart, 19, the fired waitress, all black, have been charged with the murders. Identifying the men as the killers at a pretrial hearing, Waitress Rhonda Robinson, 19, a survivor of the shooting, became incoherent; she is now under a psychiatrist's care...
Assistant Attorneys General Adrienne Collier and Rhonda Singer say they expect to investigate eight to ten other ghostly firms in the next 30 days. Meanwhile, hundreds of C.R.S. clients will have to write their own term papers-or buy them elsewhere. In fact, several anxious students called C.R.S. to ask about their papers while the raid was in progress last week. Their requests met no sympathy from the investigator who was answering the C.R.S. phone. Later some even telephoned the attorney general's office to ask for their papers. They had already paid for the work, they said. Besides...