Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Midwestern arena of his previous best sellers and, fairly transparently, Turow's home turf of Cook County, Ill. For proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...
...come back now, you hear? I expected to read, my soul as a Southern Virginian recently lost somewhere in New England and enthusiastic to give due mourning to the loss of its native tongue...
Updike the Yankee and Wolfe the Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished...
...credit for that record-setting pace goes to Chambers, an energetic West Virginian with a Kalishnikov for a mouth who plays only doubles when he takes to the tennis court, an extension of his desire to make Cisco into a team. Chambers is relentlessly customer focused and prodigiously paranoid. When Cisco loses a big order, Chambers rings the buying CEO to ask how he could improve...
...state lost more than 20,000 mining jobs during Underwood's first term; he now hopes to use technology to improve the state government's efficiency and to diversify the economy. In this year's race, the grandfather of five peppered roadsides with campaign signs that played on West Virginian sentimentality, reading simply "Governor Cecil Underwood," while working to make an asset of his age: "Obviously," he quipped during the campaign, "I wouldn't be using it as a stepping stone to another...