Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that work for the benefit of humanity with their own personal taste -- a confusion that is still to be found even in the most honorable people . . ." The subject is likely to be debated as long as there are readers (and marriages). But there can be no argument about the author's restive, analytical mind and style. For Dinesenites, On Modern Marriage is indispensable...
...author, a professional magician, has carefully researched his performers and their claims. All are authentic wonders, especially Max Malini, who could remain at a dinner table for hours, then lift his hat to reveal a large chunk of unmelted ice. A difficult act to follow, one would think, but Jay has scores of others just as weird and irresistible...
...opening of the First Women's Bank in New York City twelve years ago was proclaimed a feminist triumph. Founded by a group of activists, including Author Betty Friedan, the bank was supposed to be run and owned primarily by women. But the institution's growth has been disappointing over the years, and now First Women's (current assets: $60 million) is getting a new infusion of capital, much of it from...
...Author Saint, 45, who got an advance of $5,000 and wrote the book long before the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal broke, is enjoying a sudden run-up in his literary stock: book-club, foreign-publication and film rights for Memoirs have brought him about $2.5 million, though the Atheneum edition will not appear until April. Says Saint, whose business ventures were never so profitable: "I had always mistakenly assumed that writing didn...
Greenfeld the father knows his family has been visited by a private tragedy; Greenfeld the writer understands that the ordeal of caring for Noah calls into question everything that passes for normal. Extreme situations clarify the muddles of the middle ground. The author, past 50 and worried about his blocked coronary artery, asks himself, "What do I want out of life?" and answers, " 'Life itself.' Which really, for alleged sophistication of my brain, puts me in Noah's shoes. So why should his life be worth anything less than mine...