Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some people may have found the pressure of the instant fame that followed difficult to handle, the charming and affable Hughes just...
...first book, Madame Bovary, was not published until he was 36 years old. It brought him instant fame, when he was brought to trial on charges of "outrage to public and religious morals and morality...
...reform act -- shows still another of his several facets. He is a relentless future freak. In a town obsessed with the crisis du jour, he frequently peers at the far horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle, but politics pushes back mercilessly. That standoff underscores a fascinating conflict between Darman's strategy and his psyche...
...minutes was all it took this year to buy my girlfriend a Valentine's Day gift. A call to the florist, my Mastercard number and presto--instant Valentine's Day gift...
...Daley, face contorted, screaming at Ribicoff. TV's nation of lip readers thought they saw Daley emit the words: "F you, you Jew son of a bitch . . . Go home!" Daley later said he never used language like that. In any case, a century of backroom politics died at that instant...