Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping with this philosophy, Davies' book delights shamelessly in the unnecessary--in gossip and cheap sex (that is, $25 for Parlabane if he'll spend a day in a nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word on the Humanities perhaps belongs to a physiology professor, tipsy at the close of a long-winded faculty dinner. In response to the essential orthodox remark that the Humanities are, after all, about Civilization, he begins to lecture...
...then and feeling solvent. He had been rich two or three times since he took a bachelor's degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...
...People can get jobs in computers after a bachelor's degree that compare to jobs they could get after graduate degrees in other fields," says Lewis...
When game is afoot, royal-watchers routinely engage in round-the-clock stakeouts, read lips with binoculars, suborn servants, hire little girls to give flowers to the royals and big girls (in the case of Prince Charles in his bachelor years) to give them kisses, chase their prey at crazy speeds in high-powered cars. There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed. One reporter has even been known to steal a colleague's photos. Others lay out misleading clues to send...
...advice for dealing with the press, including himself ("There will be times when I will ask you a question to which I need an answer desperately. I am telling you now, don't answer me"). Prince Charles was over 30, explains Lacey, and "his image as an adventurous young bachelor sowing his wild oats was getting worn out. It was the opinion of Fleet Street that he should settle down and do his duty. The press pushed Diana as a girlfriend beyond the reality of the situation in the early stages. Whitaker fell in love with her." The merciless over...