Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Piercy's novel fails to live up to its promising beginning. Her three main characters prove to be run-of-the-mill rather than unique. The married couple is Willie--a sculptor happy in his bigamous lifestyle, who refuses to wear anything fancier than jeans and a fishing sweater--and Susan, a fabric designer who lusts after the fashionable New York lifestyle of Tyrone, their wealthy neighbor across the pond...
Regattabar (One Bennett St., in the Charles Hotel). A jazz bar with a fancier atmosphere than most Square bars. Often has a cover charge. Good, big martinis...
...budget slasher movies who is high on Harry's list of suspects in a serial-killer case, corners the market in upscale cynicism. James Carrey gets to go fruitfully bananas as a rock star on the mainline to an early grave. And David Hunt, as a maniac film fancier named Harlan, provides the jolt of menace. Hunt can even terrify a film critic before slicing her to shreds -- the ultimate negative review. No such fun for Clint; he mainly stands there and simmers...
...booths for about four years," said Dixon, now the head cook. "I first got experience tenderizing squid steaks," he said, adding that he cannot understand why people find the squid tentacles scary. "Anyone knows that's the best part," he continued, quite correctly to the taste of this squid fancier...
...publicity hound (he posed for a magazine fashion spread knocking down two pillars, a la Samson), Livingstone disarms critics with his self- deprecating humor. If he ever becomes Prime Minister, Livingstone once joked, "so many people will leave the country that I'll have no unemployment problem." An animal fancier who keeps newts and lizards, Livingstone may never reach 10 Downing Street, but his irreverence will probably help keep him on the public stage for years to come. That is, if he doesn't tire of playing the flamboyant maverick. "Anyone who enjoys being in the House of Commons...