Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
...most glaring case was Saudi Industrialist Ghaith Pharaon's ploy to hook up with the Georgia good-ole-boy network. The Saudi financier bought from President Carter's former Budget Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington...
NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston •Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear •Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich •Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn •Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen •War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
...seconds. Despite living on the same island for a dozen years, the two groups have managed to avoid each other. Determined to make their screen time count, the natives bob and weave around a campfire like so many loinclothed Travoltas and then sacrifice one their number to a hook-nosed Easter Island statue...
NONFICTION: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S.Naipaul Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin