Word: careers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Carolina's Charlotte Motor Speedway. At the wheel is Tom Cruise, daredevil superstar. The hazel eyes that laser out of his handsome face focus on the thrill of speed and risk. Nor is this challenge confined to a roadway's hard curve; it applies as well to his career in the movies, even if it means taking dangerous curves toward roles that might confound his fans. This day, after a dozen laps, Cruise sees a dime, stops on it and emerges from the Lumina to say hello to a visitor. He extends a hand and flashes the million-dollar...
...fall his seventh novel, Keep the Change, was published, ending a four-year hiatus from long fiction. The New York Times proclaimed it the "best book he has written to date." Almost as sweet is the news that Keep the Change is already the best- selling book of his career. No wonder that McGuane's Raw Deal Ranch has been rechristened Gladstone...
After stints at Yale drama school and Stanford, McGuane realized he had reached a "point of no return" in his literary vocation. "I was in my late 20s," he says. "I had prepared myself for no other career. What was I to do? Start selling lighting fixtures and hope to rise in the corporation?" Instead, he wrote The Sporting Club, an apocalyptic satire of an exclusive Michigan hunt club, which was published in 1969 to rave reviews. Two years later came The Bushwacked Piano, a biting social broadside about a scheme to sell towers stocked with insect-eating bats...
Unusual turns of happenstance conspired to lure the self-effacing Okoye away from the dusty city of Enugu in eastern Nigeria. Son of a onetime army officer, Okoye originally yearned for a soccer career. "It was soccer, soccer, soccer through elementary and high school," he recalls, "but as I grew up, my size made it impossible to go on." Known to schoolboy chums as "Cho-Cho," Okoye turned to track and field with ease. In 1981 an Enugu friend suggested that Okoye apply for a track scholarship at Azusa Pacific University, a small nondenominational Christian college in Southern California...
...mercenary standards, Robert Denard's was an illustrious career. The French soldier of fortune waged war throughout three decades in such places as the old Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...