Word: wannabee
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I hated to give up the stock-market theory I was working on. It was based on the premise that investors gradually lost confidence in the market by patronizing New York City restaurants. In pricey New York restaurants these days, there are two types of patrons whose presence--almost always...
And chum he is. From the moment he enters the Greek cultural center that serves as the tour's home base, people are after him, begging for autographs (Baldwin obliges) and introducing their wannabe-actor friends (Baldwin is polite). It could be worse. He could be younger brother Billy, who...
It does not require much reflection to reveal that almost every image in the book's 600 pages--a dry well, a haunted house, a faceless man, a dead-end street--stands in some way for a hollowed-out Japan whose motto might be, "I don't think, therefore I...
If Brand New ends even more strongly than it begins, that's one more testament to the resilience of its creators. Their insistence on respect--as women, as artists and as romantic partners--is a welcome change from much of today's black music scene, dishearteningly crowded with all-cried...
Smart, young urbanite Marcy (Janeane Garofalo) works for a Boston senator up for reelection. Having troubles in his campaign, the JFK wannabe assigns young Marcy to go back to the "old country"--Ireland--and trace his hereditary roots. Young Marcy arrives in a small, unheard of Irish town (where men...