Word: glare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the feminist movement, some men are beginning to pipe up. In the intimacy of locker rooms and the glare of large men's groups, they are spilling their bile at the incessant criticism, much of it justified, from women about their inadequacies as husbands, lovers, fathers. They are airing their frustration with the limited roles they face today, compared with the multiple options that women seem to have won. Above all, they are groping to redefine themselves on their own terms instead of on the performance standards set by their wives or bosses or family ghosts...
...against network packaging that has grown so boringly rote and predictable that all signs of life have drained out? If so, relief is at hand: increasingly offbeat shows are cropping up in out-of-the-way places on the dial. Some deserve their obscurity. Others might shrivel in the glare of too much mass-audience attention. But what they all share is an eccentric, homemade, try-anything quality...
Despite his professional credentials, Marx is not much of a writer. He uses phrases like "the burning glare of sensational publicity" and "most ravishing of all those glittering luminaries." But in unraveling the famous Bern mystery, he is something more interesting: a witness. Tipped off by a friend, Marx got to Bern's house on the morning his body was found, hours before anyone called the police. He discovered MGM production chief Irving Thalberg already there, interrogating the servants and learned that Mayer had even earlier come and gone. He heard that some woman had visited Bern the night before...
...glare focuses on thrift honchos, the economy worsens and Washington dithers. -- The Silverado story: how Neil Bush threw in with hustlers who cost taxpayers $1 billion. -- With voters sicker than usual of politics-as-usual, it's a tricky year for incumbents. -- Former Klansman David Duke taps a rich vein of resentment. -- The tangled tale of the Menendez murders...
...jutting jaw, the breaking voice, the intense glare have long made Kirk Douglas a favorite of stand-up mimics. At age 73 he has finally decided to join their ranks. In his first novel, Dance with the Devil, Douglas offers impressions of Harold Robbins and Judith Krantz...