Word: helene
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Most of Wolff's characters have lifestyles, not lives. Ted, Mitch and Bliss celebrate Helen's 30th birthday with cocaine, love circles and chatter like "I was into a serious good-works routine back then. I wanted to be a saint," and "I used to paralegal with this guy in the city and he decided that he couldn't live without some girl he was seeing." The story is called Leviathan, and it concludes with a Me-generation version of Moby Dick, an insipid recollection of a California whale watch."'He was a monster,' Helen said. 'I mean that...
...biographical details for Associate Editor William Doerner's profile of the Chinese leader. For Associate Editor George Russell's story on reforms in other Marxist economies, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Kenneth Banta supplied reporting and analysis from Hungary and Yugoslavia. Heading the Man of the Year reporter-researchers was Helen Sen Doyle, who has studied Russian at universities in Leningrad and Moscow...
Liberal whites also voiced distress at the Sanlam bombing. "There can be only total condemnation," declared Helen Suzman, an opposition member of Parliament and a long-standing antiapartheid activist. The financial daily Business Day predicted that the blast had destroyed chances for peaceful negotiations between the A.N.C. and the government. More-over, the paper said, the prospects for the release of imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela "have faded...
...Helen Castrilli of Tacoma, a secretary and one of the plaintiffs in a 1982 lawsuit that led to last week's deal, the settlement "proved that the jobs traditionally held by women are worth as much as those traditionally held by men." Her $16,800 annual pay will go up by about $1,200, equal to what a janitor makes. Although such states as Minnesota and Wisconsin have also accept ed the comparable-worth concept, more than 20 others are still fighting lawsuits growing out of the controversial idea. LOBBIES Falwell Rechristens His Majority...
Viscount Althorp, brother of the Princess of Wales, says, "She's got a big, fat bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess...