Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
...demonstrate the slippery grip on reality his lawyers will claim for him, Hinckley has written a letter to TIME Washington Correspondent Evan Thomas elaborating on his one-sided courtship of Actress Jodie Foster, 18 (see box). Hinckley had written TIME several weeks earlier offering to answer any 20 questions the magazine posed. Thomas submitted the questions-on such subjects as Hinckley's childhood, his travels before the shooting and his friends-but Hinckley chose to address only his feelings about Foster. Atop the letter, Hinckley scrawled the title, The Lovesick Assassin...
...China. If Taiwan would agree to be politically integrated with the Communist mainland, Peking vowed that it would not interfere in local Taiwanese affairs, and island residents would be permitted to travel freely on the mainland. Reiterating a remarkable concession that has already become part of the Communists' courtship of Taiwan, Peking promised that the island could keep its own armed forces and maintain its present democratic system. Taipei's Nationalist leaders would be offered posts in Peking...
...brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy a little more handsome than he was in 1931." In 1977 Chester passed on his pen to two young successors, Rick Fletcher, and Allan Collins, after "46 years, two months and 21 days...
...author's "submerged population" swims through an eternity of Irish religion, poverty and social riches. Attempts to show a bit of spunk often lead to trouble and comedy. The tumultuous courtship in The Masculine Principle is as psychologically complex as a Henry James relationship, though more lively. Another character, who forgets that his wife is having a baby and buys fish instead of fetching a doctor, is a man to remember...