Word: rick
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...NOTES by Rick Bass; Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence...
...Rick Bass was a fence post in his third-grade play. His father still calls him "Animal." As a petroleum geologist around Jackson, Miss., he drove a lot but was hard on automobiles. After he steered one company car into shallow water, the boss sent him a 20-ft. length of chain for Christmas. Bass acknowledges his clumsiness: "Sometimes I feel almost out of control." But he glories in a rare natural gift: "I know how to find...
Kahn's decision prompted series writer Rick Veitch to resign in protest from DC, a subsidiary of Warner Communications. He says, "I expected the same creative freedom that goes with writing a novel." The series' 50,000 fans are in an uproar. Says Stephen Kelleher, manager of Big Apple Comics in New York ; City: "Swamp Thing was only meeting Jesus. It's not like they were going to sing show tunes or perform high jinks...
...bizarre drama as Susan, the troubled title character, who is losing her grip on reality. Susan hates her life. And why shouldn't she? Her husband, Gerald (Mark Brazaitis) is a befuddled priest more interested in his historical study of parish life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation...
...imaginary world, her garden is five times bigger and her driveway is ten miles long. Her fantasy husband, Andy, does the cooking, and, "incidentally, loves (her) more than words can say." Her vacuous daughter is talented and beautiful, and appreciates her mother (now a noted author) as Rick never did. Her brother is affable and protective, generously offering his services to dispose of the unappreciative Gerald...