Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Boyd's leading men tend to be ham-fisted brutes in a state of eternal frustration. Their weighty (245 Ibs.) prototype is Morgan Leafy, the splenetic diplomat at the center of Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa. That account of coming of age in western Africa, published in the U.S. two years ago when Boyd was 30, certified him as a connoisseur of twits and cads. It also showcased Boyd's gift for spinning out old-fashioned tales that bounce along as smartly as a scriptwriter on holiday. Now, in his first collection...
...trade deficit, the cheap imports have done much to hold down prices. As the dollar's value swelled in 1981 and 1982, inflation fell from roughly 9% to 4%. "About half of that drop can be attributed to the strong dollar alone," says John Paulus, Chief Economist for Morgan Stanley, a leading investment banking firm...
...hours after the late Alfred Bloomingdale's notorious mistress, Vicki Morgan, 30, was murdered last year, her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, walked into a nearby police station and confessed. The homosexual Hollywood hanger-on, who had moved in with Morgan after she lost a $5 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale two years ago, said he had bludgeoned her with her son's baseball bat to "help her sleep." But when his trial opened last month, Pancoast, 34, pleaded not guilty. His lawyers accused unknown persons of killing Morgan to suppress videotapes that allegedly showed her having sex not only...
...defense failed to provide evidence of either the infamous sex tapes or a conspiracy, and the jury seemed unswayed by defense contentions that Pancoast may have been hypnotized into believing he killed Morgan. They needed less than five hours to find Pancoast guilty. Next week the same jurors will consider a second Pancoast plea, of not guilty for reasons of insanity. If found insane, Pancoast will be sent to a mental hospital. If not, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment...
Tramiel moved swiftly and ruthlessly after arriving at Atari's headquarters in a two-tone Rolls-Royce. As industry experts saw it, he intended to dismantle Atari, regarding it as a start-up operation. He pushed aside Chairman James Morgan, 42, the former Philip Morris executive whom Warner had brought in last September to perk up the company. Mor gan had tried to save Atari, chiefly by slashing its worldwide work force from...