Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the book's press notes, Andrea Barrett, whose National Book Award-winning collection of short stories Ship Fever is good enough that she should have known better, compares Old Scores to the famous story of the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise. The parallel between the two stories is...
Those who have regrets keep them to themselves. The rest of us regularly offer up our judgments every five years, when Harvard asks its graduates, male and female, to write about themselves for the class "Redbook," a "collective autobiography of triumphs and failures, bragging and tales of woe." As the...
Noir! The very word sounds like a French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These...
Earlier this year, The Dallas Morning News published a story saying Timothy McVeigh had told his defense team that he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building, and that he intended to leave a "body count" in order to "make our point" to the Federal Government. In your story naming the...
Practically everyone has a bull-market story, and collectively these tales illustrate the depth of the market's penetration into our social consciousness. Barton Biggs, the veteran investment strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, recalls a party at his summer house last month. The septic system backed up, and the...