Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farneti says that although some of the football players would "rub elbows" with some of the Patriots on Sunday mornings, they remained unimpressed with the pro team...
Kennedy, the Faulkner of upstate New York, again draws inspiration from Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...
...Faulkner of upstate New York, William Kennedy again draws inspiration from of Albany in his new novel, 'The Flaming Corsage' (Viking; 209 pages; $23.95). Kennedy once described his hometown as an 'improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels.' "The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books...
...entered the first Boston Athletic Association Marathon. A 22-year-old lithographer from New York named John McDermott won the race, though not easily. A few miles from the finish, McDermott had to stop because of intense leg cramps. Fortunately, he had an attendant who answered McDermott's command, "Rub!," and he crossed the finish line in 2:55:10--which would have been good enough for 683rd place in last year's Boston Marathon...
Although the negative political campaigning has stopped, it will probably return during the national convention in August. But perhaps the feel-good aura of international cooperation during the Olympics will rub off on the candidates. While nations watch who are far poorer than we are, on the brink of civil war or recovering from its aftermath, or intent on building governments from scratch, candidates may be a little embarrassed to point to our own country as miserable...