Word: broderick
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Dunne's is a cold, cruel and murderous world observed from an emotional distance. "I am by disposition one of life's neutrals, a human Switzerland," says Jack Broderick, the novel's woeful narrator. He combines the characteristics of a disillusioned moralist with the casualness of an old- fashioned remittance man. A $10 million trust fund from his billionaire father allows him to play at making a living, if not a life...
Sometimes Broderick is a San Francisco newspaper columnist who roams the city looking for human-interest stories. His father, whose holdings include the paper, does not approve: "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- you're very tight with that whole bunch of deadbeats now, aren't you?" Sometimes Jack is a Hollywood scriptwriter, and the bunch is livelier: Producer Marty Magnin, "reeking of Pinaud Lime Sec cologne . . . his shirt open four buttons down . . . beads of sweat around the plugs of his hair transplant"; Las Vegas Club Performer Buddy Seville, formerly Buddy Singapore and before that, Sandy Cairo; a collection...
...revisions came from the top level of FAA management. Anthony Broderick, the agency's associate administrator for aviation standards, took the highly unusual step of returning the voluminous report and documentation to the Western Pacific regional office with orders to rewrite it. As he said to the Senate subcommittee, "I requested that they . . . remove any material that was unwarranted generalization or unsubstantiated opinion not supported by facts." The rewrite, however, left in undocumented statements of opinion favorable to Continental...
...were on turf last year and that was a huge factor," Northeastern Coach Joan Broderick said. "But the real story was--they struck, they scored and we lost...
Judge Vincent Broderick said he would be lenient because of Gucci's age and the painful publicity the defendant had already suffered. The sentence: a year in prison, $30,000 in fines and five years' probation. Gucci will begin serving his term in October at a still undisclosed prison and will be eligible for parole after four months...