Word: obsessionals
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"This is not a job. This is an obsession," he says. "When we were kids, all we had was toy soldiers and our imaginations. Now we can make them walk and talk and fight."
Joey Bishop, 80 years old now, is not at all sentimental about the Rat Pack's renewed cultural currency. Nor is he pleased. On the phone from Newport Beach, Calif., where he lives with his wife of 57 years, Sylvia, he says he doesn't much like giving interviews (while...
What a comedown for the movement. If women were able to make their case in the '60s and '70s, it was largely because, as the slogan went, they turned the personal into the political. They used their daily experience as the basis for a critique, often a scholarly one, of...
By September 1989-after years of heroism, obsession, storms, electronic sulks, budget ruptures and challenges in court and at sea-the story was different. Thompson's expedition brought up a large part of the Central America's gold bars, dust and nuggets, valued at nearly $1 billion in 1989 dollars...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, because like most people, I'm reduced to snickering adolescence when the subject of sex comes up. But Greenberg, a legendary freethinker, known for his unorthodox remarks, beguiling magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw...