Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always returned. She had become convinced she "could not survive without him." After one pummeling in 1984, she fled to a shelter for battered women and was sent to Bellevue Hospital. When doctors questioned Nussbaum, she said she belonged to a sadomasochistic cult. "Joel put the story in my mind," she testified, adding that he "would encourage me to come up with stories, fantasies about what happened. Since I had no actual memories of this myself, I believed I had some sort of amnesia about...
...modern masters. From his Malibu beach house, he skims the Pacific in a 20-ft. speedboat. Like most self-made men, however, Geffen is consumed by his work. "My greatest fear is getting bored," he explains. "I'm always taking notes on the imaginary yellow scratch pad in my mind." Given the profit potential of his daydreams, his competitors might like to have a peek at the occasional carbon copy...
Trump took his version of perestroika to Moscow last year with the possibility in mind of putting his marble-and-onyx stamp on Red Square. Glasnost or no, he found the city fathers tougher than Mayor Ed Koch, who calls the real estate mogul "piggy, piggy, piggy" but lets him rule huge swaths of the city anyway. "The system there is so different," Trump said. "I didn't find the incentive to build as far as my time and money were concerned...
Will Trump use his audience with Gorbachev to revive the deal? Trump, who does not discourage talk of his presidential ambitions and who buys newspaper ads laying out his plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
...Eliot was an American who found his voice in England, and in books. Chandler, by contrast, was an honorary Brit who smuggled two foreign substances into Hollywood -- irony and morality -- and so gave us an unflinchingly American voice, the kind we hear in the rainy voice-overs of our mind. Few would suggest that Chandler is a more significant literary figure than Eliot. But quality and influence are mysteriously related, and Chandler has inspired more poses and more parodies, perhaps, than any other American writer of the century save Hemingway. Eliot merely articulated the deepest spiritual and emotional issues...