Word: sweet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school wrestling coach, by the Marine recruiter looking for a few good men. Men! Ron wants to be one of them, in the nifty new theater called Viet Nam. He hardly has time for a dance at the senior prom -- just a promise of sexual pleasures with sweet Donna (Kyra Sedgwick), deferred till after he has done his duty. After he finds his manhood...
...stature as one of the most original American writers on either side of the Mississippi. This fall his seventh novel, Keep the Change, was published, ending a four-year hiatus from long fiction. The New York Times proclaimed it the "best book he has written to date." Almost as sweet is the news that Keep the Change is already the best- selling book of his career. No wonder that McGuane's Raw Deal Ranch has been rechristened Gladstone...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Martha Clark, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...
Even a professional cast would have difficulty infusing emotion into heavy-handed lines like, "Can it be possible I have to die so suddenly? So young to go under the obscure, cold, rotting, wormy ground! To be nailed down into a narrow place; to see no more sweet sunshine; hear no more blithe voice of living thing; muse not again upon familiar thoughts, sad, yet thus lost--How fearful! to be nothing...
...Home, Sweet, Home: The CCSU game was a homecoming for Roby, who grew up in the New Britain area and used to attend CCSU games regularly...