Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keeffe's career was unique in the annals of American art, for several combining reasons. The first, and most obvious, was its length. It embraced the whole history of modernism in America. Between 1916, when a friend took a bundle of her drawings to Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 Gallery in New York City, and 1976, when encroaching blindness forced her to more or less give up painting, O'Keeffe remained either a vivid presence or, in her later years of isolation on her ranch in Abiquiu, N. Mex., a formidable and revered absence...
...charge that France's 4.2 million immigrants are responsible for high unemployment and a high crime rate. Hidden just below the surface is veiled racism against immigrants. Le Pen has been charged with taking part in torture sessions while serving as a paratrooper in Algeria in 1957. A former friend and co-founder of the National Front, who split with Le Pen to head his own slate, has accused him of being driven by "racist obsession." Even his ex- wife warns that Le Pen is a megalomaniac. None of this seems to have diminished the appeal...
...high Victorian earnestness rules the day, and people with funny names start assembling onstage. Waldo Chatterway, a society gossip who has spent the past 25 years cultivating the "tall poppies" of Continental royalty, decides to move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
...Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel writes from Oxford that he wishes to become an Anglican priest. And Chatterway's reappearance, as an old friend of his wife's side of the family, has further disrupted Nettleship's domestic routine. The scandalmonger comes calling, along with Egg and a young artist who has been working on the old poet's portrait. Horace does not like to see his womenfolk, particularly his beloved daughter Maudie...
...weight on it, like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money...