Word: midasized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America, however, is still the home of his greatest ambitions. "My dream is to take over an important American company and use it as a base of my operations," he says as he sits in his Monte Carlo apartment. Khashoggi wants to leave his mark on the world the way...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus...
There is, of course, the usual danger of getting nibbled to death by puns: "Haul up your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings...
That would be Priscilla Blore, helpmate of Cabinet Minister Derek Blore, the woman whose doubtful benevolent instincts are commemorated in the book's subtitle. "Kindness," in Author Wilson's mischievous sense, comes to mean an unnatural state of grace. Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear...
It is also a little reminiscent of Midas'. Unlike most designers, who work under a single label, Lagerfeld goes three ways. He designs the couture and ready-to-wear lines for Chanel in Paris. For Fendi in Rome he does furs and some couture, as well as swank ready...