Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York (circ. 355,000), which emerged from the defunct Herald Tribune as a separate weekly in 1968, rapidly established its own flip, highly successful style-typified by such contributors as Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy and Economist "Adam Smith." Although it adopted some of the Voice's interests and also produces excellent coverage of politics and communications, New York set its prime sights on the glossy worries and aspirations of more affluent New Yorkers, telling them how to recognize the best of everything and where to buy it. If the Voice tries to counter the reigning establishment of the moment...
Dale has been married for 17 years and is the father of four. "My wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...
...modestly chosen to limit himself to kidnaping and rape, perhaps because the good liberal in him balks at going further. The object of Wallace's kidnaping is a Hollywood sex symbol named Sharon Fields, she of the "half-parted moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy...
...plot too, and the idea of a love goddess turned doughty liberationist is a nice embellishment. It is of course ridiculous, but that does not much matter in a book whose characters say things like "We don't have a chance to fulfill such a dream," and young Adam compares Sharon with something out of Christopher Marlowe while noting (always the writer) that the girl is clad in a "body-hugging knit blouse" and "abbreviated leather skirt...
...down the list: Ron Haigler of overpowering Penn, jumping-jack Phil Brown of the school of the same name, Adam Sutton, the Big Green's sophomore sensation...Jenkins ranks with the best in the league...