Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a distance." With 4,500 members of the working press attending, the convention, as always, promised to be almost as much a gathering of journalists as of politicians. TIME'S 13 correspondents on hand include several who have spent months scrutinizing the 1980 race, among them Laurence Barrett, who has covered Reagan since January, Walter Isaacson, who reported on last week's G.O.P. platform hearings, and Douglas Brew, who had followed the George Bush campaign. TIME also fielded a team of ten photographers, led by Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin...
...murdering John Tupper, a restaurateur and his rival for the favors of Fashion Model Melanie Cain. Jacobson escaped on May 31 by switching places with a visitor posing as his attorney and simply walking out of the Brooklyn House of Detention. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Model Audrey Barrett, 22, Jacobson drove across the country, stopping briefly in Des Moines to pick up identification papers using names from tombstones in a cemetery. The pair bought a car and camped out or stayed in motels. Jacobson reportedly got money from friends and tried to reach writers, hoping to sell his story...
...Barrett eventually refused to keep running and surrendered to the Brooklyn district attorney three weeks ago. She reportedly supplied the names of those who had aided Jacobson in his flight, and the district attorney's office got in touch with them. In the end, Jacobson's garrulity did him in. "Buddy was calling up everybody all the time," says one official familiar with the investigation. "The district attorney offered them immunity in return for having their phones tapped...
...hero of The Second Coming, Percy's fifth novel, is emphatically both. Will Barrett is a middle-aged version of the younger character who starred in The Last Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem...
...until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...