Word: mortes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...86th birthday and toys with the idea of blowing Catchprice Motors to smithereens; she has a stash of gelignite and knows how to use it. Her daughter Cathy wants to leave the family business and go on the road with Big Mack, her country-and-western band. Son Mort refuses to sell cars and enjoys a none-too-warm paternal bond with his own two teenage sons: Johnny, 18, has escaped to a Hare Krishna ashram in Sydney; Benny, 16, possesses, as Mort sees it, "severe learning difficulties and the belief he was a genius...
Stark reality and poignant beauty are not often enough seen in the daily paper comics. Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker, the antithesis of the new cartoonists, once said that cartoonists can just barely draw and just barely tell jokes. This may be true in the generic land of "Beetle Bailey," but alternative cartoonists are nothing if not artists...
...Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will attract writers by the score." Will this hard-charging new chief ratchet up the best-seller wars another notch? It's a story line even Murdoch would enjoy...
...theme reappears unbidden in almost all conversations about Safire: his unusual capacity for nurturing intense friendships. "If I were in a desperate situation where I had only one phone call, it would be to Bill," says David Mahoney, the former chairman of Norton Simon. Similarly, Safire's literary agent Mort Janklow calls him a "great friend," someone he would trust to race to Bangkok in an emergency. Such sentiments sound saccharine, but Safire's friends tend to remember gifts he gave them 30 years ago. For Barbara Walters, who worked with him in p.r. in the late 1950s...