Word: oscars
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...however, was the support of Central America. The same week that the Reagan-Wright plan was announced, the Presidents of five Central American nations gathered in Guatemala City and signed a plan of their own. This was largely the handiwork of Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a soft-spoken, stiffly formal politician who had taken office only 15 months before. Arias labored quietly and relentlessly to come up with a peace agreement that all the region's combatants might endorse. Arias' plan was much easier on the Sandinistas than the U.S. proposals had been, but it did require...
...poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other, I'll be famous, and if not famous, notorious." Such heady ambitions are fairly common in the young, but the Oxford undergraduate who uttered these words in 1874 got all of his wishes, and then some. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde not only achieved the most glittering renown of his era but the most abject humiliation as well. He flew higher and fell farther than any of his contemporaries, and his life had become a legend well before his death in a shabby Paris hotel in 1900. He had wrought...
Wilde's story has been told numerous times. He began appearing, scarcely disguised, as a character in novels before he had written anything substantial himself, and the passions aroused by his dizzying ascent and precipitous collapse have stirred memoirists and biographers ever since. Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde will not be the last word on this subject, but it is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account. Ellmann, who died seven months ago of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), was the author of the landmark literary biography James Joyce (1959). In his numerous books...
...single lily in his hand was not simply to throb with pleasure but to be observed doing so. News of Wilde's Oxford eccentricities preceded him in the world at large. When he met a friend outside a theater, he overheard someone say, "There goes that bloody fool Oscar Wilde." Wilde said quickly, "It's extraordinary how soon one gets known in London...
...Oscar Wilde' s wit, pain and, yes, heroism shine through Richard Ellmann' s fine biography. -- The top fiction and nonfiction of the year...