Word: janet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweet-potato or pumpkin pie. Few details escape her attention, as when she insists on freshly ground white pepper in salmon and scallop timbales: "If you put black pepper in, people will see the big flakes and won't know exactly what it is." Says Dallas caterer Janet Showers: "There is no garnishing like hers...
...business has so edged out her private life that the two are almost one. Stewart's mother, a sister, a brother and sister-in-law are on her payroll, and her eat-'em-up ambition apparently contributed to the breakup last year of her marriage. Says longtime friend Janet Horowitz: "I don't think I've ever been to a dinner party at Martha's that wasn't photographed." A big holiday party will be included in her upcoming Christmas book. For Martha Stewart, loss of privacy is a small price to pay for perfection...
...brilliant as the man who created him. Marlow, who relishes the cheap irony that his name echoes that of Raymond Chandler's famed sleuth, is a failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs-de-sac. Figures from the past make cameo appearances...
...same light hand is evident in the thousands of books that fill his apartment near Central Park. From his 33rd-floor aerie, he and his second wife Janet, a retired psychiatrist, overlook the city they seldom leave. The proof of Asimov's immobility lies in the terrace situated some 40 ft. from his study. Janet tends the little garden. Incredibly, he has never set foot on the terrace, for the man whose Foundation Trilogy centers on a Galactic Empire and ( interplanetary voyages is terrified of heights. He has flown only once: "It was in the Army, and to refuse meant...
...Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Segelken, Michael Skinner, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...