Word: jezebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jazz baby or a Jezebel, in All About Eve and Now, Voyager, she created the movies' first and finest thoroughly modern woman: smart, independent, combative, ever alluring...
...farm, Wiggins walks among his mallard ducks, chickens, geese and a Norfolk terrier named Red that once belonged to the late White. The elders among the geese -- Arthur, the old gander, and Jezebel, the goose -- are often featured in Wiggin's Aesop-like bimonthly column. Once a "mover and a shaker," he steered the Washington Post's coverage of every crisis from the Berlin Wall to the Viet Nam War. No more. "You can't flatter yourself in the belief that you can leverage the world from the perimeter of Ellsworth, Me.," he says. "But I enjoy rural life...
Even if the parody of the Long Island scene has been done before it remains humorous, perhaps benefitting from Eberstadt's youthful vantage point. This vantage point, however, is one of the novel's few flaws. Most of the story is told by Jezebel, but it is unclear how old she is. Sometimes she makes remarks only the dowdily middle-aged should try to get away with, while at other, moments she demonstrates the lack of perspective characteristic of an adolescent on a hormonal jag. Nonetheless, this flaw does not severely impede the novel, which becomes a wild string...
Full of bizarre images and powerful, if tortured emotions, Fernanda Eberstadt's Low Tide is well worth the read. It is the tale of Jezebel, a 19-year-old Manhattanite, and the two sons of her father's oldest friend. The latter pair are located in England where they squander their fabulous wealth in unimaginable ways...
...modicum of stability. His brother Jem, however, is a changeling--half monk, half libertine, vacillating wildly between desperate passion and asceticism. The favoured child of an impressive Mexican woman who died when he was younger and nearly dragged him with her, Jem is, to put it mildly, disturbed. Jezebel, despite being uprooted and a bit lost herself, remains probably the most sane of the trio. She spends the summer with her father in England only to become entangled in a consuming, obsessive passion which is split between Casimir...