Word: rolls
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Though the book switches voices and perspectives--sometimes it is told from Milagros' point of view, sometimes through the voices of other side characters--for the most part the book focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named the Gangster of Love, and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko...
...suite on the Sheraton's 31st floor, Clinton watched Gore's convention speech and the nomination roll call on television. In the room were his old friends Vernon Jordan and former White House deputy chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Clinton asked Bowles to check in with Morris and get to the bottom of his story. The political calculus was cold and clear: if the story checked out, Morris had to go. Having Bowles act as intermediary made more than one kind of sense. Since he was no longer in government service, he would not be under any obligation to pass...
...ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named "The Gangster of Love," and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko. Hagedorn?s first novel, "Dogeaters," was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. "The Gangster...
...poetry was a second tincture of Walt Whitman; and, finally, not good for all that much more than correcting the roll on a pool table. But when the world thinks of Chicago, does it think of Vachel Lindsay ("We were Prairie Democrats, and this was our day") or Darrow's summation in the Leopold-Loeb Trial ("...So I be written in the Book of Love...
...Washington this summer was that Chelsea Clinton would be making her speaking debut at the Democratic Convention. The New York Times reported that she had been pressing for a role and that the White House was considering it. What better way to get prime-time coverage than to roll out your best-kept secret, a truly new voice? And what better way to trump the Doles' mantra--my family values are better than your family values--than to show off a poised, well-mannered teenager...