Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRUST by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $18.95). Another installment of petty schemers and low-life banter for Higgins fans, but other readers will feel it takes far too long for the protagonist, a crooked used-car salesman, to get his comeuppance...
...with a small role, has tremendous star potential. Gianni demands rewrites and shootings to make Clara the star of the movie. Caught in the power struggle of the film industry, Clara marries Gianni, who now controls her life. Antonioni forcefully reveals a deep preoccupation with isolation through his female protagonist...
...Nixon's caution almost enabled Humphrey to recoup in the final days, but the Republican knew his constituency well enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy after the 1972 triumph, the ripples of Watergate just beginning to grow into a tidal wave...
Despite the apparent similarities between Galbraith and the book's protagonist, both the professor and his editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co. said the novel is not autobiographical...
When Crimson Key members shout "bitch!" every time the female protagonist comes on screen, first-year students get the impression that sexist attitudes are acceptable here. For all their claims about not singling out women, Crimson Key members would never shout classic racist epithets or homophobic slurs at the movie screen...