Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night convenience store had brides on Aisle 3 for the politician who finds he's running low on family values. He twists the gooseneck lamp in the back of his limousine to shine it on his companion, Melania Knauss, a model just back from a photo shoot for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's swimsuit issue. "Is this the next First Lady of the United States or what?" he asks. She beams under the tiny spotlight, showing teeth like a prize filly at the state fair...
...cars their parents drive. "Lack of respect is the root of all evil" and "Pain shared is pain divided," he preaches, building to where he demands honest answers to a few questions. "How many of you have seen fights start here at school for something silly?" The hands shoot up. "How many of you have heard the words homo, faggot and dyke used in school?" A sea of hands again, just as when he asks if they have seen students isolated and ridiculed. "This is not how we want to live," he says...
...despaired of the future of both writing and reading, given the plummeting literary standards and increasing indifference to learning in our era. In so dark an hour, it is nothing short of magical that what J.R.R. Tolkien called the "Tree of Tales" could put forth a green and growing shoot like the Harry books--a branch that can serve as a broomstick to bear us "lands away" and, better still, worlds within. Congratulations, J.K. Rowling, on constructing a real, working transPotter! ANDRE NORTON, GRAND MASTER Science Fiction Writers of America Murfreesboro, Tenn...
...prone to touching strangers randomly and shouting insults like "Eat me Mister Dicky-weed!" becoming a detective is probably not the most obvious career move. Case in point: Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn P.I. who can't shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
...good!" Stearman says. The weeklong Grandparent-Grandchild Summer Camp, founded by Arthur Kornhaber, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, is one of many intergenerational programs launched in recent years. Elderhostel, which organizes learning vacations for seniors, has seen the adult enrollment in its intergenerational programs in the U.S. shoot up, from 251 in 1990 to nearly 3,300 in 1999. Stearman explains the allure: "It's a general immersion into the life of a kid. It's wonderful just to hang out together and see how they function with other kids." Why does he go the extra mile? "Deep...