Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own situation and say yes, we have a little more money, but new cars are expensive, and while microwaves may be cheaper, the utility bill hasn't gone down. "Even those who say they're doing O.K. now think that other people are losing ground," says Susan Mitchell, author of The Official Guide to American Attitudes. "They all know people who were laid off. Even if it was distant cousin Billy Bob, just knowing someone who was laid off shakes your faith...
...this economy pries open the gap in prospects for those with a college degree and those without. The average CEO of a large company now earns 200 times more than the average worker, up from a 40-fold difference in the 1970s, according to trend watcher and author Gerald Celente. And for those who drop out, the options for unskilled workers keep shrinking, as does the safety net beneath them if they fall out of the economy altogether...
...houseboat where Cunanan put a bullet into his own skull after setting off one of the most intensive manhunts in recent history. A book published this fall, Death at Every Stop: The True Story of Andrew Cunanan--The Man Who Murdered Designer Gianni Versace, by Wensley Clarkson (author of Slave Girls), added a few new details to the once inescapable but now nearly forgotten Cunanan legend: he reportedly fathered a child and starred in two "graphic, low-budget, sadomasochistic gay pornographic videos." In a tribute to the speedy turnover of news cycles, few media outlets paid much attention...
...bumptious codger Barney Panofsky of Barney's Version (Knopf; 368 pages; $25) is more than a familiar Richler hero. He is the author's fullest expression of the type: a pleasure-loving scoundrel with a generous romantic streak and a gift that can turn schmoozing into literature. Barney makes his sizable living producing Canadian-content TV series like McIver of the RCMP ("big on bonking scenes in canoes and igloos"). He calls his company Totally Unnecessary Productions, a name that flaunts his self-loathing but, more important, pre-empts the scorn of his artistic betters...
...tough cookie, then? Absolutely. The judge turned down her request, but Coutant-Peyre immediately filed a request to bring in yet more witnesses ? three French security agents and the author of (another) book on Carlos...