Word: rye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand at the deli counter, ordering a roast beef on rye with lettuce from a knockout waitress who looks as if she comes from India. She slices the roast beef and reaches for the lettuce. My arm brushes against her wrist. We fix each other in a longing gaze. The lights in the deli go out, and then, in the sweaty summer evening, with the red neon pastrami sign flashing in the window, we roll around on the checkered linoleum among the containers of cole slaw and potato salad with chives. In the morning we run off together...
...help push teachers toward outdated or bland book choices. Those who fight back with verve risk being drummed out of a job or even chased into court. And the old reliable volumes aren't necessarily a refuge either. Such classics as The Grapes of Wrath and Catcher in the Rye are still frequently the object of parental protests...
...inch-long icicle or a fake Pastrami on Rye sandwich? Call 1-800-366-2857 for a list of products and prepare for astounding prices; that Pastrami on Rye will set you back $70. Of course, the high costs are a result of expensive individual molds, labor intensive hand carving and specialty chemicals. Call today for a model of your very...
...know. And now, Maynard has tried to oblige. In At Home in the World (Picador; 352 pages; $25)--yes, it's another memoir--she lifts the veil on the devastating affair she had with J.D. Salinger when she was 18 and the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye was 53. Maynard's recounting is full of all those key details sympathetic girlfriends require. He made her eat frozen Birds Eye peas for breakfast and then throw up; he seemed to get along best with very young girls; they couldn't even manage to have sex. Any spurned lover...
...nine-month affair with Salinger 26 years ago, when he was 53 and she was 18. In her book "At Home in the World," to be published by St. Martin's Press, she provides a look at the reclusive author of the iconic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," about the disillusioned young hero Holden Caulfield. Maynard says Salinger, who has not published a book since 1965, told her publishing is "just more of a damned interruption than I can tolerate anymore." But she says he wrote every day for hours, and by 1973 had completed at least...