Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This revelation interrupts and transforms Barclay's struggle. An eminent though declining novelist, Barclay has been beseiged by a young American academic, Rick Tucker, who badly wants to be the foremost expert on Barclay. As the novel begins, Barclay discovers Tucker rooting through the dustbin looking for torn-up papers. The incident proves disastrous: after Tucker discovers a letter from an old lover of Barclay's, the novelist's wife leaves him. The scene also gives Golding the chance to satirize culture-vultures. When Barclay expresses his anger, Tucker, "out of the depths of his reverent absurdity," says "'I understand...
Harvard set the tone in the first inning, loading the bases with one out only to strand all three runners. Holy Cross displayed its aversion to scoring an inning later, when right fielder Rick Rabideau broke from third on a one-out grounder to second baseman Gaylord Lyman, who threw to catcher Jim DePalo for the fielder's chose Had Rabideau held third he would have scored on Jack O'Keele's ensuing single to left...
...screaming pre-pubescent bubble gum crowd a Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...
Minutes later, Jamie (Rick Springfield), fleeing his bathroom, races across the screen, a company of excited fans not far behind. Outside his bathroom, a disgruntled song writer swings a broken wine bottle threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand...
...damned? Who is Halliday, the mysterious American billionaire who has given Tucker seven years to win Barclay upi as a trophy? Broad hints are dropped that the author and the critic have begun to exchange identities. Barclay asks the American: "How come you speak the way you do, Rick? Years and years in England I don't doubt." Tucker replies: "How come you speak the way you do, Wilf? The ^ tones, I mean. They've flattened." With their accents swapped, the two I might amount to one rather schizophrenic consciousness. Near the end, Barclay's ex-wife...