Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judges can be much more subjective when it comes to artistic presentation. A skater's outfit, carriage, music and even facial expressions all are grist for evaluation. Thomas' low artistic marks in the short program may have been due to her choice of music. The high-energy selection, recorded by a group called Dead or Alive, was definitely not a lullaby of Broadway...
...power, as the truism goes, has its limits. In the concentric worlds that comprise modern New York, a character like Sherman McCoy is impotent should he venture beyond the insularity of chauffeur-driven cars and prepschool networks. Away from Wall Street, McCoy's life becomes the grist for other New York types, each one consumed by a drive for power. The gallery that Wolfe presents is compelling and yet predictable--his types are compiled from the people profiled in New York Magazine, Manhattan, Inc. and page six of the New York Post...
...years later, Rather was walking along Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side when, as he told police later, a pair of strange men attacked and beat him. One of them asked the unfathomable question: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" The incident -- still unexplained -- provided grist for talk-show wisecracks for weeks...
...Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders about stories they have read together. This year a few of her students will sit with Cheyenne women who tell tales as they knit together, their heritage becoming grist for today's young writers...
Elected to Parliament as its youngest Member at 29, Archer has had a tumultuous career. He was forced to give up politics and resign from Parliament five years later when bad investments left him near bankruptcy. Those misfortunes became the grist for his first best seller, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1975), a title that his lawyer last week jokingly suggested should serve as a guide to the jury in setting damages. Archer's seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit...