Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book. The dialogue is rich and raunchy, often delightful. And the reader wants so much to believe that Brown's right: that women knew how to love each other before 1968, that female solidarity is not an invention of the Millets and Morgans. The problem is with the writing itself...
...find comfort with other women, in which deserted alcoholic wives simply open a speakeasy, in which lesbians can live together openly and peacefully in a small town, in which the good woman kills the villain and the police don't bother to investigate, in which lesbians and straight women, rich women and poor women live together without suspicion. It's not that all this isn't possible. But Rita Mae Brown never allows any of these conflicts to get out of hand. It's so much like those Lassie episodes we adored when we were kids, in which some heart...
...Frank Rich...
...Yankees had bought some speed of their own during the winter: Reliever Rich Gossage, acquired as a free agent for a reported $2.75 million over 6 years. He finished his first season in pinstripes by saving 27 games and compiling an earned run average of 2.01, impressive figures attained by totally unsubtle yet highly effective means: throwing a baseball at better than 95 m.p.h. Facing the Dodgers, Gossage retired six hitters of his own. The Yankees finally got their bats around on Welch in the tenth inning, winning 4-3 on Lou Piniella's opposite-field single. With...
...rich and their food value...