Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have known both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, it was in Mantua that he found his voice as an artist. As architect and painter to Federico II Gonzaga, he became Mantua's virtual artistic dictator in his 20s and remained so until he died at the early age of 47. There, projects poured from him in an undiverted stream: not only frescoes and panel paintings and the innumerable sketches that preceded them, but also designs for palaces and villas and town houses (including his own house in Via Poma), for heraldic emblems, tapestries, urns, salvers, jewelry and every other...
...Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved naturally in the imaginative world of a recovered antiquity -- the world of Apuleius and Ovid's Metamorphoses, the brutal sharp humor of Martial's epigrams, the fantasies of a Golden Age and the pseudo-scientific world view of astrology...
...like her -- Lucy has a lot to like. A blossom growing out of white trash, she teeters between unaffected adolescence and poignant maturity. But perhaps the Spectors are also rehearsing for parenthood; perhaps they are determined to send sweet signals across the barriers of culture, class and age. They realize that their ability to adopt her baby depends finally on Lucy's whim. So, effectively, they adopt Lucy. She is an '80s Eliza Doolittle in the Spectors' pristine palace, getting a tantalizing glimpse of the good life on loan. Should her child live there? She's not sure. Could...
Beyond revelations about Frank, the paper has scored its share of scoops -- some substantial, others ephemeral. Reporters earn a bonus for each exclusive. The Times covers conservative politics well and wielded influence during the Reagan Administration. But in the age of glasnost, the paper's strident anti-Communism seems out of touch and its editors are struggling to find a new voice. So far, the results are mixed. "It's very difficult to be a tabloid, a sensationalist paper and a respectable paper at the same time," says Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
Worst of all for Salomon Brothers, Michael Lewis, who was earning $225,000 a year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...