Word: withing
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THE SEARCH FOR SCARLETT II Margaret Mitchell refused to write a Gone With the Wind sequel, yet publishers were undeterred. In 1988 romance novelist Alexandra Ripley was selected to write the saga, but Warner Books, which paid $5 million for the rights, let the autumn 1990 publishing date slip.
THE GREAT AMERICAN REVISION The literary world has been waiting for New York writer Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul since a 2,000-page manuscript was delivered in 1976. Brodkey, who began writing the book nearly 30 years ago, has been revising and arguing with publishers ever since. His...
The troubled leisure-wear company has unveiled a series of holiday commercials that compare the supposedly meager gift-giving traditions of other cultures with the loaded-down Christmas excess in the U.S. The spots' self-satisfied tag line: "Aren't you glad you live in America?"
Rarely does history draw a complete and ironic circle in a single generation. In Marion, La., the result makes an odd spectacle. In this unpaved country of clay soil and bayous, deep in a wilderness of pines, stands the white brick ranch house of Joseph and Hazel Hampton, complete with...
The Hamptons have gone home to Marion from Los Angeles, and their journey is part of a discreet reverse migration of Southern blacks with second thoughts. "When we left the South, it was a one-way deal," says Joseph Hampton, 57, . a retired aircraft-parts machinist. So it was for...