Word: vineland
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...home was half an hour away from Vineland, N.J., the Ku Klux Klan's largest center in the Northeast, she says. She served on a committee fighting hate crimes during her senior year, a time when her school was rife with racial tension...
...faithful that the elusive author was working on two new projects: a novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...
RUTH KATZ (D) District 2 (South--Atlantic City; Vineland...
...EDUCATION: St. Joseph's U, B.S., 1968 FAMILY: Wife, Jan; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Trucking-company operations manager POLITICAL CAREER: Cumberland County Board of Freeholders, 1985-88; New Jersey Assembly, 1988-95; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1992; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 550, Vineland...
...Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. Devotees waited 17 years for the author to outdo his apocalyptic Gravity's Rainbow (1973). What they got instead was a kinder, gentler Pynchon. This saga of wilting '60s flower children, circa 1984, on the lam from federal narcs, displays much of the author's old virtuosity: stunning erudition and terminal paranoia coupled with the hard-edged loopiness of cartoons. That is not surprising; the happy ending...