Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polisher for 35 years. Especially contented is Richard Perry, 54, the chief executive who has just overseen production of the company's 100,000th car. The royal-blue Silver Spur Centenary will go on display at the Crewe plant alongside a 1904 two-cylinder tourer and a 1907 Silver Ghost. Twenty-five duplicate Centenarys will be sold for $125,000 each. Says Perry of the historic achievement: "Eighty-one years is a long time to produce 100,000 cars, but that fact speaks volumes for itself...
...unable to make anything like them." Adds Dennis Jones, who takes a full day to make a radiator grille: "Henry Royce would be proud to have his name on this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
Nathan Zuckerman made his debut in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer (1979); the hero was an earnest young author in the process of learning that art and life issued contradictory demands. By the time of Zuckerman Unbound (1981), Nathan had become absurdly rich and famous, thanks to a scandalous best-selling novel that estranged him from his father and the rest of his family. Zuckerman's punishment came in The Anatomy Lesson (1983), in which he appeared as a neurasthenic wreck hoping to start life all over again as a medical student...
Your car gets a flat during rush hour. A cigarette cinder singes a favorite shirt. Neighborhood hooligans drape toilet paper from tree to shrub to tree, the family dachshund finally gives up the ghost, or, God forbid, an IRS audit notice arrives in the afternoon mail. Cripes! Disaster...
...provoke a showdown between Hindus and Sikhs of such intensity that the 14 million Hindus who reside in Punjab would be forced to flee. That, the radicals believe, would inevitably result in the creation of an independent state. As one analyst of Sikh affairs explained last week, "The ghost of Bhindranwale cannot be exorcised." To speed what they hope will be a massive Hindu migration out of Punjab, Sikh terrorists have marked local Hindu leaders for assassination. In recent weeks, three have been gunned down. Among them: Balbir Singh, the state president of the opposition Lok Dal, who was killed...