Word: zillion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elements of House Party are familiar from a zillion youth movies: the boy who sneaks out to a teen hop, the school punks who spit out threats, the nice girl our hero flirts with and the even nicer one he winds up with. Lots of wit in the pop-tune lyrics; too much raw-mouthed slurring of women and homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking...
...this Pynchon's teasing reference to his own shadowy presence among his / admirers? A lot of readers and scholars would like to ask him this question directly, plus several zillion others. But Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is not, never has been, available for interviews. What can definitively be known about him has long since been tracked down. He was born May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, N.Y., into an old, distinguished New England family; one ancestor founded several towns in Massachusetts; another served as the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford. Pynchon graduated from Oyster Bay High School...