Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted but ditsy mistress (Dianne Wiest). And do make sure his life finally depends on the skeptical love and untested intelligence of his daughter Carmela Maria Angelina Theresa Voltecki, a.k.a. Cookie (Emily Lloyd...
...Nike faltered, Reebok galloped ahead. Beginning its life in the U.S. as a subsidiary of a British shoemaker founded in the 1890s, Reebok, based in Canton, Mass., is now a publicly held firm that owns its former parent company. Its mid-'80s success came from inventing and persistently exploiting the market for women's aerobic shoes, a shift in the business that Nike had completely missed. Reebok's revenues zoomed from $4 million in 1982 to $900 million...
Confession is a religious ritual and a literary device, a point that John Gregory Dunne has illustrated a number of times during his career as a U.S. journalist and novelist. For example, Vegas (1974) was an unflattering, candid account of a bad time in the author's life, an on-the-road book that played personal problems against the city that passes for Sodom, U.S.A...
...lower orders. But once a Harp always a Harp, a lesson driven home by another old institution, the U.S. Army. German whores, barracks mates with tattoos, the general cynicism toward military routine, all validated his own outlook. Truth be told -- and Dunne tells it -- he is fascinated by life on the wild side...
When searchers located the disintegrated plane last week, the late-night vigils in Leland's Capitol Hill office ended, and the Washington practice of canonizing its own began. Leland, who in his life had difficulty dragging colleagues away from junkets to Paris and Bermuda to join him on trips to ! Appalachia, Africa, Indian reservations and migrant camps, finally in death found allies for his cause...