Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Klieman nreiterated that witnesses who saw Robyn from April 3 to April 7 said the boy was clearly sick, but his life did not appear to be threatened...
WILDLIFE by Richard Ford (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A novel about a 16- year-old boy's coming of age in Montana during the 1960s, a time of oil boom and family disintegration, but also a time to begin understanding the world of grownups by observing their passions -- and mistakes...
Like many immigrants, the short story was born in Europe and flourishes across the Atlantic. Case in point: The Barnum Museum (Poseidon; 237 pages; $18.95). Although Steven Millhauser can tell a straightforward anecdote, his true strength is magic realism. In one tale a boy steps behind a movie screen to find rooms full of ectoplasmic actors coming to life for an audience of one; in another, a certain Mr. Porter runs into inclement weather and washes away like a watercolor in a rainstorm. Brilliant parodies, pastiches and comments on Alice in Wonderland, Sinbad and T.S. Eliot show how this gifted...
...shore of Chesapeake Bay, watermen surreptitiously plan to get rid of a corpse before anyone can discover it. But a small boy has witnessed the killing, and he knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled...
...Pacino as bad boy Big Boy probably delivers the best acting job of the movie--his maniacal thirst for power leads him to kill off all the competition in town. But while the humorous lines he throws around make for good comic relief, his character is still boring and one-dimentional. He's just your common table-banging mobster, who gets foiled...