Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that Parker was hired to complete Poodle Springs, a Marlowe caper unfinished when the author died in 1959. Complete is an understatement. Only the first four chapters (scenes really) belong to the master; the remaining 37 are Parker's. Readers who use their ears as well as their eyes will notice rhythmic differences. Chandler's sentences are usually punchier than Parker's. R.C.: "It was a very handsome house except that it stank decorator." R.P.: "I found an office finally, as close to a dump as Poodle Springs gets, south of Ramon Drive, upstairs over a filling station...
...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter, roughly 10,000 West Indian men go to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
Gilbert became the first woman member of Harvard's alumni-elected governing board in 1970, serving as Overseers president from 1975 to 1976. While on the Board she was the primary author of the Gilbert Report a study of how Harvard's two governing boards--the Corporation and the Board of Overseers--shared control over the University...
...read Kit Troyer's review of "Black Rain," I learned that this tradition continues. It was the height of irony to find that in the same review of a movie denounced for "reinforc[ing] some long-standing racial stereotypes," the author describes one character as a "Japanese mafioso." Does the Editorial Board (which offered no disclaimer) express the belief that criminals worldwide owe their existence to an illicit network originating on Sicily at the turn of this century? Or is your belief that Italians are in general archetypal criminals...
...original author of the new zoning, Terry R. Crystal of the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association, said she was "not surprised" that the University still plans to build the hotel. She added that she hoped the hotel would be a small...