Word: mens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer, Newsday, Long Island's bible of local politics, ran a cover story outlining the several dozen men (no women) who run Nassau County, listing their outrageous salaries (mostly for part-time jobs) and their potential conflicts of interest. The Republicans will still win again this year...
...Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after wrecking his car, spends a night with a farm couple who have a beautiful daughter living in the attic. Only one problem: when he touches the girl, her skin starts to dissolve, revealing a rotting corpse out for revenge against all the men who have wronged her. Some farmer's-daughter joke...
...Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe caricatured the voracious men who work 16-hour days, earn outrageous salaries that never keep pace with their desires, and consider themselves "Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the top of the food chain is Salomon's CEO, who presides with a smooth amalgam of drive and hypocrisy, speaking loftily of social issues and encouraging his staff to bilk the clients. Below him are ranks of predators, among them a man so dedicated to consumption that he is labeled "the Human...
...year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...
...bison, for instance) or bad. Wolves had been pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking vengeance on wolves. Barry Lopez, in his haunting book Of Wolves and Men, tells of wolves drenched with gasoline and set afire, wolves pulled apart by horses. You can't dismember an April blizzard...