Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There have been frequent derailments. After a couple of ragged but promising early albums, Jeffreys cut a great song, Wild in the Streets-about those mystery kids-and put out an album called Ghost Writer that was one of the standouts of the '70s. Great things were predicted. Subsequent records were like Hansel's trail of crumbs through the woods, attempts to clear away stylistic underbrush and find the path back...
...company he kept have continued to haunt Donovan. In May a federal grand jury in Brooklyn charged that Schiavone Construction was extorted by Harry Gross, a New York Teamsters Union official. According to the indictment, Gross forced Schiavone to place his chauffeur on the company payroll as a "ghost" who never showed up for work. Donovan claimed at his hearings that the arrangement was part of a collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters. The Justice Department is prepared to argue, when Gross's trial begins at a federal court in Brooklyn, that the arrangement was illegal...
DIED. Charles W. Yost, 73, who participated in the San Francisco conference that founded the U.N. in 1945 and then, nearly a quarter of a century later, became the first career diplomat to serve as U.S. ambassador to the organization (1969-71); of cancer; in Washington. Nicknamed "the Gray Ghost" because of his mild, unassuming manner, he was a seasoned troubleshooter whose service over four decades in capitals from Vienna to Vientiane earned him the Foreign Service's highest honor, the title of Career Ambassador...
...what a clever idea for a novel. In Zuckerman Unbound, a sequel to The Ghost Writer, Newark-born Nathan Zuckerman has made a million dollars with Carnovsky, an ethnic and sexual extravaganza that resembles Portnoy's Complaint. Zuckerman's problem is not sex but a reluctance to indulge in the conventional rewards of his money and fame. Says André Schevitz, his agent: "First you lock yourself away in order to stir up your imagination, now you lock yourself away because you've stirred up theirs...
...Ghost Writer, the promising young Zuckerman fancied that a Harvard researcher was Anne Frank. He even imagined marrying this martyr who had somehow survived the death camps. Fifteen years later, the author of Higher Education, Mixed Emotions, Reversed Intentions and the controversial Carnovsky has broken up with his wife. Laura was not an imagined Jewish saint but a selfless political activist. It was a hopeless match that Zuckerman might have novelized under the title "Mixed Intentions." "Hers is the cause of righteousness," he moans. "Yours the art of depiction...