Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the celebration of Epiphany gives way to the Joycean epiphany of Gabriel's concluding thoughts, Huston yields the screen to his beloved master in a wonderfully self-effacing way. The powerful words are voiced over the simplest imaginable montage of Irish snowscapes. Huston's great contribution is only this: he gently imparted to his film an old man's tolerance for human frailty, thereby tempering a young man's impatience with...
Downey, 55, seems oddly cast as the pit bull of TV talk-show hosts. The son of an Irish tenor popular with radio audiences during the 1930s and '40s, he worked for a time as a singer and songwriter. His eclectic, not to say bizarre, career has also included stints as co-owner of the New Orleans Buccaneers franchise in the American Basketball Association, an activist for victims of the Biafran war in Nigeria and, briefly, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party in 1980 (he turned down the nod, he says, because the party was too right wing even...
...shots straight, but his mind kept veering back to the gathering Wall Street storm that threatened to destroy everything he had worked to achieve over the past decade. By the time Black Monday was over and Lynch realized the full magnitude of what had happened, he knew his Irish vacation would have to be cut short. By 6 a.m. the next morning Lynch was on his way to Shannon Airport, pondering the stunning news that in the two business days he had been away, Fidelity Magellan's assets had plunged by 28%, from $10.7 billion to $7.7 billion...
...wife Carolyn, 41, a physical therapist. They had long been planning to leave on Oct. 15 for a trip to Ireland. "Should we do this?" they asked each other. But Lynch rarely took long vacations, and he was especially reluctant to cancel this one. Though his roots are as Irish as homespun Donegal tweed, he had never been to the home of his ancestors. Besides, could an avid golfer who shoots in the low 70s pass up a chance to visit the country that, in his estimation, boasts six of the 25 best courses outside the U.S.? So Lynch packed...
...starting bell at the Big Board was about to ring. Lynch got on the phone and stayed riveted to the receiver as his colleagues at Fidelity described the sickening free fall of stock prices. He took a break for dinner with Irish friends at Doyle's, one of the country's best-known seafood restaurants, but he cannot remember what he ate. As the Dow plummeted a record 508 points, 500,000 calls jammed Fidelity's toll-free number. Many customers were buying, but many more were selling, and the fund lost an additional $150 million...