Word: elena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins more or less in 1984, when a Washington Post reporter named Elena McMahon abruptly quits covering the 1984 presidential campaign for her paper. Earlier, Elena had walked out of her marriage to Wynn Janklow, a Los Angeles megamillionaire, taking their teenage daughter Catherine with her. "She knew how to cut and run," says the narrator, who had met Elena in Los Angeles; both were regular invitees to Oscar-night parties that strongly resemble, as described here, the legendary ones thrown by the late agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar. Didion's narrator does not dwell on this detail...
...newly footloose Elena flies to Florida to visit her father Dick, who may or may not have been in the CIA at one point--he tells his daughter he knows someone who "was involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick...
...might be able to save her: State Department troubleshooter Treat Morrison. "This was a man who could pick up the telephone and affect the Dow, reach the Foreign Minister of any one of a dozen NATO countries, the Oval Office itself." Morrison jets to the unnamed island where Elena is waiting to be paid, and the two of them...fall in love. "This is a romance after all," Didion's narrator confesses. It doesn't last long...
Another proctor, Elena C. DeCoste '98, said she was advised that up to 60 percent of her students would smoke at the beginning of the summer and up to 15 percent more would start before the session was over...
...Elena Androunas, a media consultant with COMCON, a mass communications consulting center in Moscow, was a fellow and professor of journalism at Moscow University for 20 years...