Word: unstrung
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...Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung chapters...
Chabon's chapters aren't unreadable, but they are unstrung: a series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel. Chabon seems to be winking at friends: Look, here's a ridiculous bit in which Tripp gets the dean of students pregnant. And here's Miss Sloviak, the transvestite, and here's Tripp's car with a dead dog and a tuba in the trunk. Some of this is worth a smile, some a raised eyebrow, but let's agree with Chabon's publisher that he has actually written his third...
...subsequent movie and TV show, and more especially SCott Turow's harrowing ONe L, students have probably been prepared to have their egos cracked by the academic rigors of the place. Of course, it can still be a little startling to be spattered by vomit from an unstrung classmate during an exam, as happened to one student long...
...creators of Unplugged, MTV's hit program featuring all acoustic performances, such unstrung moments are part of the fun. "Everything's last- minute, and that's the way we like it," producer Alex Coletti says of the Costello segment, which will air next week. "It gives the show the loose feel we want...
...total amount due. About 30 banks, however, have yet to sign the accord, and there are concerns among bankers that the impact of the great quake may lead them to withhold their signatures even longer. "Unless all banks sign," says one U.S. financier, "the whole package could come unstrung." Moreover, Mexican officials estimated last month that they would need about $3 billion in new foreign loans in 1986 to keep economic growth at its current rate of about 3% annually. Banks that were wary then are certain to be even more hesitant in the wake of the tremors...