Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Susan Sontag says Brodkey is "going for real stakes. I read every word he writes." The author, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has sometimes been willing to join the chorus of his admirers: "It's dangerous to be as good a writer...
...public confirmation of that status. Steve Gold (Tom Hanks) is a sort of drug-free Lenny Bruce, brilliantly spritzing free-associational social comment and autobiography. If Lilah is trying to escape the traps of the lower-middle class, Steve is trying to avoid the respectability and stultification of the upper-middle class...
Harvard had its best scoring chance with just three minutes left in the game when senior forward Ally Keenan broke into the box and fired a quick shot for the upper corner...
...four candidates held either council-wide office or committee chairmanships last year and council members and observers say that none has a true upper hand in the election...
...first child in the third generation of the Forrester family to receive a college degree. Steven Elster, 27, is finishing medical school. He is being supported by his parents, who are also paying for half his medical-school tuition. He has every expectation of rising quickly into the upper middle class and being better off than his parents. It is the widening gap between Steven and his cousins -- and the absence of the middle ground that their parents staked out with such relative ease -- that is most disturbing...