Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Updike the Yankee and Wolfe the Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished...
...Gentlemen, we have a deal. AOL and Netscape announced Tuesday morning that their anticipated marriage would go ahead -- after a full month of secret negotiations -- and that AOL would pay $4.21 billion. That's $210 million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...
...night that this reviewer saw Annie, the show was a hit with the entire audience, especially children. The lobby of the Wang Center was filled with three-foot tall knockouts, dressed in their own Mary Janes and best dresses. A few enterprising young gentlemen could be overheard trying to pick up some of these soon-to-be leading ladies, but most were too busy tap-dancing like Molly or gustily singing, "Tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun'll come out tomorrow" to even notice...
...Internet IPO feeding frenzy is back after two quiet months. Never mind that Theglobe.com admits in its prospectus that it plans to lose money "for the foreseeable future," or that the site's audience -- web surfers looking to build their own home pages -- doesn't make advertisers drool. Gentlemen, start your startups...
...digs it, but she's not doing back-flips about it." She calls her man's pad "cozy and warm," but wonders just who exactly her boyfriend is planning to bring home. But though these rooms may be constructed with the best synthesis of function and creative expression, what, gentlemen, would Mom say if she came to visit...