Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Author Graham believes that the Shah's motives in tolerating the corruption, and in guiding the network of investments of the Pahlavi Foundation, were less personal aggrandizement than a desire to retain tight control of the Iranian economy and win the loyalty of subordinates by lavish financial favors. Nonetheless, the Shah in power lived very well, to put it mildly. He shuttled among five palaces in Iran. Journalist Fallaci, interviewing the Shah in 1973 in one of them, noted that "almost everything in the place was gold: the ashtray that you didn't dare dirty, the box inlaid...
Your Money by Richard Phalon. The reader who follows all of Phalon's advice may or may not "minimize his tax bite and manage himself into a surplus" as the author promises, but he will have had a good time for his $8.95. Explaining that loan rates can be negotiated, the Forbes magazine editor urges readers to take a firm stand with their bankers: "Insert the term 'banking relationship' into the conversation like a nicely greased thermometer and mention the imposing size of your checking and savings account balances. If that doesn...
...YOUR MOTTO is, "I spend, therefore I am," then Cambridge is the place to be. On your trek from the River to the Yard you can pick up a squash racket, poetry by an obscure author, and a slice of pizza with hardly a break in stride; when you tire of the Harvard market you can hop the Dudley bus for a quarter, and pour your green from Central Square to Roxbury...
...Tell that guy not to announce me over the microphone as the bodybuilder," Arnold was saying. "I think my writing ability has succeeded the bodybuilding. Announce me as the best-selling author." A Coop employee spoke to Arnold in German, and left. "Every time I come here she wants me to sit here naked," Arnold said. "I told her she should take her clothes...
Letters, By John Barth. (Putnam, $16.95): John Barth's endless epistolary novel takes five of the author's old characters and one new one and sets them to writing letters, usually not to each other but to dead people, themselves, imaginary characters, or the author. The letters go on forever through 700 pages, and though Barth's details follow an intricately laid-out pattern, there seems to be very little point to it all. Barth's writing remains contortedly witty, and alone gives Letters some value, but Barth might have shown some regard or consideration for his readers and restrained...