Word: shea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston University has experienced the same kinds of problems with NYNEX, according to Jim Shea, director of the telecommunications department there...
...some delay problems earlier in the year, but we've worked through them." Shea said. "These problems are typical...
...Unzipped" subtly highlights the detail in this bizarre world. One conversation between Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford captures their wonder at the sheer brightness of the Shea stadium lights. It's as if the two of them have become hothous, plants who have trouble understanding the sunlight. And no wonder. They rush about from one fitting to another on a planet of six-foot women and bottomless champagne flutes...
...hero will be a storekeeper, a young, energetic Irish immigrant in Australia at the turn of the century. Tim Shea is a good, intelligent man, the kind of big, decent fellow that men and women like. But he is thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death...
Keneally does more than bring the old stories to life, and Shea, a living, sweating man with clenched fists hanging out of his shirtsleeves, is the central figure of his own tumultuous life, not of some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow...