Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freedman here has not settled on a specific city, but he has chosen to make his Caesar a Latin American caudillo, who enjoys wearing his military uniform with its gold braid and rows of campaign service ribbons. Our century is familiar with such personages: Peron in Argentina, Estrada Cabrera and Ubico in Guatemala, Gomez and Perez Jimenez in Venezuela, Vargas in Brazil, Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador, Ibanez in Chile, Stroessner in Paraguay...
...indeed snake to the horizon. Even the natives may purchase gas only on an odd day here, an even there. Lo, how it heartened them to know that the inconvenienced diplomat was Salah Omar al-Ali, the ambassador from Iraq, he whose land has helped make oil dear as gold...
Caldwell is not the only Bostonian with a backbreaking challenge. Henry Sears Lodge, son of Henry Cabot Lodge, is battling over the Boston Music Hall, another grand old theater complete with marble doorways, gold-plated chandeliers and four tiers of promenades. Leased to Sack Theatres in 1962, the 4,200-seat Music Hall has been doubling as a movie palace and as a home for the Boston Ballet. Last summer, when a touring company of Broadway's Man of La Mancha unexpectedly sold out for twelve weeks, Sack President A. Alan Friedberg stepped up his efforts to renew...
Shiva Naipaul is most weak where his brother is strongest--the ability to empathize with all the people he writes about. He does not try to understand why a nouveau riche black Kenyan has two freezers (which she never uses), whisky at every meal, gold-painted nails, and an expropriated mansion too large for her needs. He simply finds her ludicrous and tasteless...
...Something gets stolen (in this case, a U.S. space shuttle on loan to the British), and Bond has to find out what happened and try to get it back. But this is classic; even Sean Connery Bond flicks used such plots. (Goldfinger bought up most of the world's gold supply, Spectre took bombs from a hijacked American submarine in Thunderball, and arranged the thefts of two American and one Russian space craft in You Only Live Twice...