Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These things are not what we have, but what we are. Leigh Hunt exulted: "Nothing can deprive me of my value for such treasures. I can help the appreciation of them while I last, and love them till I die; and perhaps, if fortune turns her face in kindness upon me before I go, I may chance, some quiet day, to lay my over-beating temples on a book, and so have the death I most envy." Plato was reputedly found dead with a book under his pillow, Petrarch in his library with his elbow resting on an open page...
...Thomas? Will he sell the rabbit? In frustration and fascination, all Britain was asking such questions last week as the latest chapter unfolded in a treasure hunt of epic and enigmatic proportions. There were few answers...
...become an instant personality. He was, no less, the man who had finally solved the mystery of Masquerade. That fantasy for children by British Author-Painter Kit Williams has been a surprise bestseller for almost three years (1.5 million copies in eight languages). Climaxing a feverish 18-month hunt, Thomas had dug up the $10,000 bejeweled golden rabbit in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire...
...rabbit, you say? Why, one like the pendant that Jack Hare, a character in Williams' 1979 fairy tale, had been commissioned by the Moon to carry to her lover, the Sun, but had dropped along the way. Williams, 35, spiced up his tale, and launched an international treasure hunt, by burying a genuine 18-karat Jack Hare pendant that he had crafted himself. Clues to the whereabouts of the jewelry, he announced, could be found in the text and pictures of Masquerade...
...pictures often earned outsize profits for paperback tie-in editions, are equally cautious. A seven-figure property like Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife has yet to make it to the screen. Currently, the odds are against its ever getting to a sound stage. Says Willie Hunt, vice president of production at United Artists, "Everybody's trying to figure out what the 15-to 25-year-olds are going to see. You're not going to find that in manuscript form...