Word: everlys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counsel James Warner says he only meant to describe the life of a soldier to Bennett and explain why bringing back a semiautomatic weapon "bought in good faith" is so important to G.I.s. Is Bennett going to answer Warner's letter soon? No, says Bennett's office. Is he ever going to answer Warner's letter? "Basically, the answer...
...will, to make them. Old factories and unproductive coal mines must be closed, meaning the loss of thousands of jobs. The Communist-dominated bureaucracy and army need to be cut back. Most problematical of all, as Mazowiecki said, living conditions will have to get even worse if they are ever to get better...
Among the others swept away were two pretty frauleins. One was Hitler's unstable niece Geli Raubal, the only woman he ever truly loved. It was a sad and unfulfilled affair. On a September evening in 1931, after an argument with & her uncle, Raubal fatally shot herself. He had only one subsequent lover, a young blond named Eva Braun. In 1932, frustrated by Hitler's inattention, she also aimed a pistol at herself, but the attempt failed. Nearly 13 years later, under Berlin's streets, the drama would be eerily restaged when Hitler took Braun for his bride, 40 hours...
...help set but is good news for readers who like snappy prose, to say nothing of snappishness. Dunne takes particular pleasure in knocking a great American unknockable from his hometown. Katharine Hepburn, he harps, "has always seemed to me all cheekbones and opinions, and none of the opinions has ever struck me as terribly original or terribly interesting, dependent as they are on a rather parochial Hartford definition of quality, as reinterpreted by five decades' worth of Studio unit publicists." Writing well, or at least trying to, is the best revenge...
...oaks. Requests for Zagat's photocopied survey soon grew to the point that his wife Nina, also an attorney, suggested that they start selling the guide to cover expenses. Now, a decade after that fateful dinner, Tim Zagat is no longer a practicing lawyer but the mogul of an ever growing mini-empire of restaurant and hotel reviews across the U.S. For New York City gourmets, the appearance of Zagat's annual survey of local restaurants has become an event anticipated much the way their Parisian peers await each new Guide Michelin. Zagat has extended his restaurant guides...