Word: dares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important battles of Family and Friends are fought over love, and in this arena Brookner is shrewd enough to know that the Geneva convention does not apply. "The rules are really crude," she said in a recent issue of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly. "The rules are: Who dares, wins. This is bad news for people who don't dare and who see others win. That's the central problem, I think. I think it's the matter nobody gets completely right." Not in life, perhaps; but this art historian who dared write novels has found the solution in literature...
Consolidated Foods is a sober, respectable name for a consumer-products conglomerate, but none dare call it mouthwatering. Accordingly, executives of the Chicago-based company (1984 sales: $7 billion) decided to rename the firm Sara Lee, after its familiar frozen cakes, breads and pies...
...getting back to rock stars, we all know that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who ever lived (and died), that Janis Joplin cornered the market on blues, and we dare not challenge their legends. Weren't we all taught not to speak badly of the dead, since they're not around to defend themselves? Instead, we let their sancrosant memories be grappled with and protected by biographers, former lovers and marketing geniuses of all types. And the faces of the long gone past gain the mystique of the unknown--what if they had lived on? --and the privilege...
...hail Prefab Sprout's second album, STEVE McQUEEN. Imagine, if you dare, Aztec Camera with twice the accent plus lousier lyrics times silly Linda McCartney backround singing...
...Trooper 1st Class Frank Woullard was sitting by Interstate 70 in Frederick, Md., in a bright yellow, nine-ton State Highway Administration truck. Woullard's giveway tan hat sat on the seat beside him and his radar detector sat on his lap, safely out of view. Woullard didn't dare show his face to oncoming traffic--instead, he watched for speeders in the rear-view mirror...