Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died standing up." So begins Interviewing Matisse, a promising first novel by Lily Tuck. From its gripping opening sentence onward, the novel provides a crazy yet satisfying mixture of revelations about death, love, Paris, dogs and, of course, Matisse...
Interviewing Matisse investigates the individual nature of experience. Each woman uses anecdotes from her own past to shape and interpret the telephone conversation. In many ways this preoccupation with their own experiences alienates the women, but it also illustrates that each person necessarily approaches life differently. Tuck may have conveyed this more effectively if Lily and Molly had been less similar--as it is, the two women are nearly interchangeable...
...program, which is a little like watching your Great-Uncle Roger show up for a guest shot on Yo! MTV Raps. The standard-issue Brooks Ivy League sack has been supplemented with svelter models priced from $395 to $695 that offer a little trim of the trousers and some tuck at the waist, so the suit looks more Polo and less Organization Man. It was Ralph Lauren who modified and merchandised the Brooks Brahmin look into his own house style, which might be called Long Island Anglo: jackets more suppressed in the waist and side vented, trousers as often buoyed...
...last week's Senate hearings, directors of three nuclear-weapons laboratories, including Livermore, unanimously argued that the SRAM should be ( taken off the bombers flying on alert, put into storage and made removable only at a base commander's order. John Tuck, Under Secretary of the Department of Energy, which builds nuclear weapons and shares responsibility with the Pentagon for their safety, told the subcommittee, "I think that's the direction we're going." Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams, however, insisted that the Air Force would keep the warheads on "alert" status, at least until the safety study is completed...