Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former President Gerald Ford. Like many pals, Ford has invested in Davis' oil deals over the years. Says Ford: "You look at Marvin, and he looks like a tough, mean guy -- and he is a tough businessman. But on a personal side, he's a warm person, a nice guy to be with...
...move on (he is believed to hold a 3.5% stake in the company)? Back at Horace Mann High School in the Bronx, Davis' classmates said the pugnacious youth could -- and would -- argue any side of an issue. Even now he may be mulling his next daring move over a nice hot pastrami sandwich in Beverly Hills...
...beauty of Nice Work is that abstract literary concepts take on a real meaning in determining the lives and outlooks of the characters. Vic, for example, sees the feelings he develops for Robyn as "love," while Robyn says that love is "a rhetorical device," a "bourgeois fallacy" and a "literary conjob." It's just another word used to exploit people...
...Nice Work covers new ground, particularly in its analysis of Thatcherite Britain in relation to the Victorian industrial era. It is just as consciously literary as either of the first two, but it has a firmer grounding in the contemporary social and economic problems of modern-day Britain...
...world of academia, from which the previous novels rarely strayed, is on a collisiion course with reality in Nice Work. It is to Lodge's credit that he can see the reality so clearly from such a literary standpoint. And vice versa...