Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nora as heroine is defenseless and lovable but tries our patience. She hasn't an ounce of spunk--an unfortunate deviation from the Gothic tradition. Asking for a joint bank account becomes a crisis of independence. After being robbed of her wedding ring and wristwatch, she wonders whether the event was unreal or surreal. Our sympathy for Nora is further lessened by Schwamm's emphasis on Nora's contradictory and oppressive wealth. It is hard to feel for the frenzy of the poor little rich girl when it is described in terms of "her pulse...beating against the hammered gold...
...York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories reveals that "classy trash" hasn't been thrown...
...when Royko's old paper, the financially crippled Chicago Daily News, folded. The Sun-Times has had its troubles recently as well; circulation has dropped. But Murdoch's fortune--his "News Corporation" reported assets in excess of $200 million in 1980--and his loyalty to the Post--which hasn't shown a profit in seven years--suggests that the Sun-Times will be around for a while even if the times get tougher...
This does not mean, however, that speculation about who Bok is considering hasn't been widespread among professors and Faculty administrators...
...There hasn't been much young blood recently and we're interested like vampire in young blood," Goldman said...