Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family endured with good humor and pride. They did not feel neglected. Though her district is mostly blue-collar, Ferraro lives in an upper-middle-class enclave in Forest Hills. Her husband's successful real estate business helps pay for a winter retreat in St. Croix and a summer house on Fire Island. For the children (Laura, 18, about to enter Brown; John Jr., 20, a student at Middlebury College, and Donna, 22, a Financial Analyst on Wall Street) there were expensive educations. A full-time housekeeper does the cooking and cleaning. When a photographer asked Ferraro to pose...
...next poet laureate-not necessarily a safe assumption-then Philip Larkin, 61, will get the job. In that event, the Queen's subjects had better brace themselves for a jolt. Larkin can speak for England, but it is the gray, postimperial England of rationed hopes and undercutting humor, the England of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, which was dedicated to Larkin and is regarded as his youthful portrait...
...more than they may want to know about his dietary habits (Shredded Wheat for breakfast), his haberdasher (Wilkes Bashford) and his favorite restaurants (Le Central and the Tadich Grill). Some of his word gags not only time eggs but also lay them ("bumpersnickers," for the compendium of auto-born humor that he occasionally shares with readers; "LActress," for L.A. actress). But Caen comes up with more than his share of winners. He claims to have coined the word beatnik, and his elegies on the bygone charms of San Francisco are usually models of crisp journalistic prose. He has learned...
Dobrynin broke in under John Kennedy. The Ambassador attended the famous meeting where Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko lied to J.F.K. about missiles in Cuba. Dobrynin survived because U.S. officials concluded he had not known about the missiles either. His sense of humor carried him through tough times. Eyeing a new Washington building with huge glass columns, he cracked: "Aha, that's where you are going to put your MX missiles." He jokes about being the man from the "evil empire." Dobrynin is, by one White House aide's account, the only Ambassador who "can talk, eat, laugh...
...seems to give her less Centre Court time than a player of her stature deserves. And U.S. television did not cover one of her matches complete until there were virtually no other women's matches it could show. As a result, many people are unaware of the good humor with which she conducts her business. Her ferocious style makes it seem like she is "beating up all those innocent young girls," as she wryly puts it. Not so, says Peanut Louie: "It looks like she's having fun playing tennis. Even if you get murdered...