Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Author Ruth Rendell writes two kinds of novels: the continuing adventures of two shrewd and dogged suburban policemen, Wexford and Burden, which delight her fans, and dark journeys into the deranged psyches of outwardly normal people, which fascinate her but sell far fewer copies. The first group fits comfortably into the mystery genre. The second resists pigeonholes. The books feature no heroic detective and no gathering of suspects for a summing up. Sometimes the precise nature of a crime remains known only to the perpetrator. The lure to the reader is not to see justice done but to understand...
...compartments were constructed when she left suburban journalism in East London and its Essex suburbs at the time of Simon's birth. It was then, she recalls, that she began writing fiction, waiting for her husband Don, a political reporter, to come home. "I started a historical novel, a romance novel, a Jewish novel although I am only a little bit Jewish, some straight novels. A publisher rejected my comedy-of-manners novel with a nice note saying, 'Do you have any more?' So I gave him my first mystery novel, featuring Wexford and Burden, had it accepted and rewrote...
...years. But Father Lawrence Martin Jenco managed to perform the necessary rituals with distinction last week as he made his way homeward after 564 days of captivity in Lebanon. His journey took him from Syria to West Germany, then Rome, London and Washington, and finally Chicago and suburban Joliet, Ill. "Chicago is a windy city, and I want to feel that wind again," he declared soon after his arrival at the big U.S. air base at Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, West Germany. At week's end, before heading home to Joliet, he met in the Oval Office with President Reagan...
...speak of neo-expressionism by an original expressionist, this painting is it. Everything about it, from the violently suffused colors to the lumpish drawing of the Amazon queen's feet, runs close to satire. Never, one suspects, has classical myth been rendered with such homely, indeed suburban, protagonists. But for the burning temples in the background one might suppose the scene was a Baltic beach in August. And yet it has a strange, mocking intensity: despite his official position, the old dog could still bite when left to his own subjects, far from the civic view and the official portrait...
...many companies can reap handsome profits by giving away everything they produce. But in the newspaper business, an enterprising group of publishers is doing just that. By relying solely on advertising revenues, their papers prosper without charging readers a cent. From the suburban Boston Tab (circ. 150,000) to Berkeley's East Bay Express (circ. 45,000), free newspapers, most of them weeklies, are finding lucrative editorial niches and providing a sprightly alternative to established dailies...