Word: benediction
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...domestic, Heidi prospered for three heady years, reaping 40% of her girls' earnings. A slim and attractive 27, she hung out in the best joints, was seen with the likes of Billy Idol, Sliver producer Robert Evans, and Victoria Sellers, Peter's daughter. She lived in a $1.6 million Benedict Canyon mansion (Hollywoodese for house), whose previous occupant was Michael Douglas and whose current owner is her father, Los Angeles pediatrician Paul Fleiss. She threw a smashing party there for none other than Mick Jagger. Jack Nicholson showed up, and so did Prince and a couple of Red Hot Chili...
...then she'd go back and get a girl, and then the girl would go over and sit on the guy's lap while he ran his hand under her clothes." Soon the word got about that Heidi had the best girls in town. Business blossomed. Melrose faded. Benedict Canyon loomed...
Unlike the established literature on nationalism, Greenfeld's Nationalism does not opt for the short compact theses of scholars such as Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) but rather delves into the particulars of five nations in a search for the driving forces behind nationalism. Greenfeld devotes a chapter each to England, France, Russia, Germany and America, and concludes that there is no one nationalism, but that there are "nationalisms...
...energetic Paul Benedict, as Scrooge, is the actor you know you know, but you just can't place. (His place, for trivia's sake, is "on the East side, in a deluxe apartment in the sky." He played the off-beat neighbor, Harry Bentley, on television's The Jeffersons.) Benedict dominates the stage throughout, although one does worry that he might keel over due to coronary failure brought on by excessive energy expenditure. The rest of the company, from toddlers on up, performs relatively anonymously but nonetheless effectively as background for Scrooge's transformation...
Before his epiphany, Benedict's Scrooge is a character reminiscent of a man clearing his throat and phlegming up mucous. The phlegm is all gone by the end, and a jolly, giddy, bright and shiny Scrooge emerges to love and be loved...