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Balson, who described "Ramsey" as a novel about growing up in Los Angeles, says, "My book is in the vein of Catcher in the Rye and Portrait of the Artist as A Young Men. Stylistically, I'm inspired by Joyce and Faulkner. They are my heroes...

Author: By Andre T. Dryansky, | Title: Aspiring Novelists Re-Joyce | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...could capture Catcher in the Rye on film, though one supposes that Frances Coppola or a Michael Cimino could spend a couple dozen million trying. Of course either would give us lot of grass--acres and acres of golden grass--with a Wagnerian soundtrack, but it would still feel so ... phony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Burno M. Ponterio, a middle school principal from Rye Brook N.Y., says he will bring some ideas for tangible changes back to his suburban school, but also a commitment to enlisting support from his teaching staff before he implements any plans...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramsick, | Title: Building Better Schools | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

Officials of Rye, N.Y.-based Dictaphone, whose roots go back to a company founded by Alexander Graham Bell, figure Picocassettes will find a niche in the $285 million dictation market. They do not think the system will supplant existing equipment but say that the tiny tapes will be useful for executives on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Tiniest Tape Ever | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...eared old town, with a not-quite-finished look about it, as though its builders knocked off a week or two early. It is a low town, with one main street full of bars, set in farming country where people raise soybeans one year, rice the next, winter rye the next, and then begin the cycle again. Over the years nothing much changes in Mamou. The boys in this culture are expected to mature into good providers and two-fisted drinkers, and the girls are expected to marry and swap obsequiousness for fidelity and adulation. The blacks are expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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