Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vanity. Her nails, makeup and hair are always just so. She maintains that grooming is part of her job, "as people make judgments about youbased on your appearance." Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the cynosure of attention at any gathering. Harper's Bazaar named her one of their eight "Over-40 and Sensational" women last summer, and she is a stunning refutation of the cliche of the dowdy feminist. In an era when nonprofit organizations seek out celebrity spokespeople to get their message across, she is the public relations ideal, a spokeswoman...
Gambling may have brought to Atlantic City a Pompeian profusion of statues, but the city's long-standing sense of carnival still flourishes. The casino boutiques may sell Gucci leather, but the Boardwalk is a bazaar of plastic beads, mugs shaped like women's breasts, and baby sand sharks in glass jars. When Las Vegas was nothing but a jukebox in the desert, Atlantic City had clam-eating tournaments and midget boxing matches; today one of the Boardwalk's main attractions is Celestine Tate, a disabled woman who lies on a stretcher like a beached mermaid and plays a Casio...
...careful, pragmatic politician, he seeks opinions, relies on advisers and likes to split the difference on difficult choices. An inside look at how this White House operates. -- The hostages are still a long way from home, but the bazaar is open. -- Do guns save more lives than they lose? The National Rifle Association says so. See NATION...
Paul Theroux is the writer whose novels read like travel books and whose travel books read like novels. It is not surprising, then, that he has given the matter some thought. For example, in The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 best-selling account of rattling through Asia, Theroux concluded that "the difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows." He added wistfully, "How sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction...
...Small had the bad fortune to be shopping at World Bazaar that night, Mack had the good luck to have a brother married to Congressman Jim Wright's daughter. Mack was arrested and pleaded guilty to malicious wounding with intent to kill, saying stress made him do it. Mack was offered a job by Wright after sentencing, and ended up serving 27 months of a 15-year term in the relatively soft confines of the county jail rather than the state penitentiary...