Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to be their big finale. The Oregon teens had planned a major heist, Ethan would later say, maybe half a million that they would tote in athletic bags from the money room at a Nordstrom department store. But that plan didn't work out; in fact, the whole night had gone right to hell. (Why didn't they stick to knocking over Burger Kings?) Tom had worked as a clerk at Nordstrom and--duh--someone recognized him when he and Ethan ambled in. So they walked out without taking a thing. They should have gone home, but after weeks...
...wasn't supposed to end like this. Something like 20 previous jobs had been nearly effortless, too easy to be planned. Just run in, wave guns (one of which didn't work), and the dorks unloaded cash drawers, whole tills--here, take it, don't kill...
...looking guy with solid parents, that cute Jenny White for a girlfriend and a nonstop sense of humor, the kind that could always cheer you up. And Ethan Thrower, sweet kid, churchgoer, MVP on the track team, a member of the elite Royal Blues choir, honor roll, yearbook, the whole deal. They were the most popular kids at the biggest school in town, a public school but a prestigious one--it even has a lacrosse team--a place so idyllic that Hollywood came there to film Mr. Holland's Opus...
...Jenny begged him to stay for the prom the next night. It was a heart-wrenching, five-hour conversation. Tom was obviously in big trouble, but Jenny didn't know how much. In the end, Tom went to the prom, though friends say he and Jenny looked miserable the whole night...
...penthouse pent?") and enough literary echoes--of Joyce; Yeats; Frost; Dante; oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. But for all of Rushdie's brilliance, the parts of this novel seem greater than the sum of its whole...