Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woods portrays the Lord of the Underworld as a sour, conniving Hollywood agent. He works every meeting, with gods, mortals or demons, as if it's a bored crowd in a Vegas lounge ("So is this an audience or a mosaic?" he asks after a gag bombs). Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths. And when he blows his smoldering top, it's like Krakatau in orgasm. In character, design and performance, Hades...
Wilde largely precipitated his own tragedy, when he rashly brought a libel suit against the father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for publicly calling him a sodomite. Wilde dropped the suit midway through the trial, but the damage was done: charges were soon brought against him for violating public morality. After one hung jury, he was convicted and sent to jail for two years...
...almost hear Garcia Marquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer's respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogota whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Then the target of a relentless manhunt, he used the captives as bargaining chips. The negotiations eventually led to releases and a surrender agreement with a no-extradition clause and a luxurious protective-custody package for Escobar, his family and his business associates...
...literary rendezvous. One can almost hear Garc?a M?rquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer?s respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogot? whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Most of the hostages were women, including Diana Turbay Quintero, daughter of a former Colombian President. A TV journalist, she imprudently walked into an Escobar trap, taking a film crew with her. By now the world is well acquainted with hostage holding...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.: The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but Mother Teresa hires muscle. Questions of "immaculate confection" aside, the Holy Mother of Calcutta has asked Nashville coffeehouse owner Bob Bernstein to quit baking his famed buns, shaped in her image, for his Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original...