Word: fistedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The classic shamus prefers a snub-nosed .38, made in the U.S.A. He is invariably single (Philip Marlowe was a bachelor until Chandler's last, unfinished novel; Lew Archer lives alone, as does Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash...
In general, his colleagues say, Carrington epitomizes the old school of patrician, moderate Toryism. His working relationship with Thatcher, a leader of a new Tory breed, as intent on fiscal austerity and hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric as it is distrustful of the aristocracy, therefore came as a surprise to...
NOT SURPRISINGLY, Meese's attack on the courts represents one punch in the administration's two fisted attack on civil liberties and broad guarantees of rights. In an article in The New York Times, Justice Department public relations man Terry Eastland unintentionally elucidated the real intentions of Meese and the...
Now Webb is tricked into assuming his Bourne identity once again. His assignment this time: to track down an impostor threatening to plunge the Far East into war. The bait being dangled is Webb's equally scholarly wife Marie, who has been abducted by American agents and flown to Hong...
It was hardly a battle of equals. In one corner, Lee Iacocca, 61--the industrial wizard who, with a little help from his federal friends, lifted Chrysler Corp. out of bankruptcy and into high profits; the celebrated author of the best-selling autobiography (2.6 million copies and still No. 1...