Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Together these wealthy women call many of the shots in the West's second largest city. They set the tone of its breezy conservatism. They generate much of its impulse for urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond...
...Secretary of State James Baker will meet in Washington with the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers to select a Palestinian delegation. That group, in turn, will travel to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be host for preliminary talks in which the Palestinians and an Israeli delegation will set down the ground rules for elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Balloting will then be held in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate a period...
...platoon carried are precisely itemized: a 26-lb. radio, an 8.2-lb. fully loaded M-16, a 20-lb. pack of necessities, including canteens of water. There are heavier burdens. The chapter "On the Rainy River" finds the narrator considering a dodge from the draft. It is set mainly at a fishing camp in Minnesota where young Tim can practically cast a line across to Canada. The scenery and tone suggest early Hemingway; the difference is that O'Brien's uncertain youth must still go to war before he can join a lost generation...
...James and Barbara Pym, has written better novels. Her best works juxtapose exquisitely etched character miniatures against a larger canvas. In Family and Friends (1985) and Latecomers (1989), her protagonists interact with small gestures in narrow worlds, but in the background World War II looms as a haunting menace. Set in the '60s and '70s, Lewis Percy is buffeted by the winds of fads. Tissy becomes a support-group feminist ("Last week they got to know their bodies. This week they're getting in touch with the pain"), and his boss is a pedant of the new linguistics ("only deconstruct...
...another form of camouflage, and Baldwin is gifted at it. He can imitate a Woody Allen monologue or a Southern stuntman's patois. While making Red October, Baldwin perfected such a good Sean Connery impression that it ended up in the movie. This is a great on-the- set mood enhancer, but a would-be star should be polishing his image, not hiding...