Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are many careers of this sort. Among their prototypes is the former subway artist and present disco decorator Keith Haring, 27, with his thin doodles of barking dogs and radioactive babies. Another is Jean-Michel Basquiat, 24, much hyped as a sort of art-world Eddie Murphy and hence especially popular with Los Angeles collectors, his untutored and zappy scrawls routinely praised for their "energy." (This anxious hope for signs of energy is a sure index of cultural flabbiness.) But for postgraffiti art the writing is already on the wall, and such careers, rolling in their limos to oblivion...
...cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass.' " In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark's prepubescent girls wonder, as children always will: " 'Miss Brodie said they clung to each other with passionate abandon on his last leave.' 'I don't think they took their clothes off, though,' Sandy said. 'Do you?' 'No. I can't see it,' said Jenny. 'I wouldn...
...Getty who will receive nothing from the agreement is Los Angeles Businessman Jean Ronald Getty, 56, J. Paul's son by the third of his five marriages. After a bitter 1932 divorce from Jean Ronald's mother, the senior Getty cut his son off from the family fortune. Although Jean Ronald's children will eventually get a share of the trust's assets, their father will continue to receive only what J. Paul allowed him: $3,000 a year...
...three weeks Nadkarni will wed Jean Blake, his high school sweetheart, who attended college in Maryland. Nadkarni says that that five of his freshman roommates had "hometown honeys," but he and Jean are one of the few couples who survived. They saw each other about once a month and during the summers. He admits that restraints of the long-distance romance tempered his optimism, but smiles while adding, "we put each other in our place...
...People here wear their tuxes more than anyone else in the world," says Jean of Harvard. The newlyweds plan to live in either Pennsylvania or Maryland, while Nadkarni attends a nearby medical school...