Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal of the real. The press is the Holden Caulfield of the political game, always on the alert for phonies. Gary Hart was nabbed for philandering, and Joe Biden was caught barking up Neil Kinnock's family tree, but the media's primary target became Gephardt's populist pretensions. The Missouri Congressman needed to peddle the antiestablishment line to revive his stalled Iowa campaign, but he only invited ridicule when he imported nearly 40 congressional insiders to join him on the barricades. In contrast, the blandness of Bush and Dukakis was often exasperating, but it stemmed so naturally from their...
Author Carrie Fisher, the actress daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, has been through drug problems of her own and gives her protagonist the kind of humor born from pain, anger and a strong will to live. The narrative voice is a bit like Holden Caulfield playing the Borscht Belt: "I'm a flash and the world is my pan." And: "I guess that's how guys are thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic...
...Missie also has a Holden Caulfield eye for the ridiculous: "A lot of Italian ladies came around . . . They are, apparently, knitting tiny garments for Goering's baby. Seems a bit much . . . After dinner we had a long discussion with a famous zoologist about the best way to get rid of Adolf. He said that in India natives use tigers' whiskers chopped very fine and mixed with food. The victim dies a few days later and nobody can detect the cause. But where do we find a tiger's whiskers...
Random House can now appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court or try to issue the book in a more watered-down form. Salinger naturally had no comment on the court's decision. Holden Caulfield had already spoken for him, after all. In the opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's captious hero warns the reader, "I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography." And not going to let anyone else tell it either...
Recently, however, Caulfield has been founding up kids left and right. Bradshaw said that with 25 new names, the directors are now assigning little brothers and sisters to several student locks who were placed on a, waiting first last fall...