Word: owned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the ventriloquism of fiction, Dunne, 57, sounds like a Harp from one of his own novels. Yet he seems to have had some trouble getting comfortable with his natural delivery. The problem lies in the dirty secret of class consciousness. "It took me nearly a quarter of a century...
It wasn't that Dunne lacked status. His grandfather was a grocer who built himself up to community pillar, and his father was a respected surgeon. Dunne went to Princeton University and perfected talking through his nose, the better to honk down the lower orders. But once a Harp always...
When searchers located the disintegrated plane last week, the late-night vigils in Leland's Capitol Hill office ended, and the Washington practice of canonizing its own began. Leland, who in his life had difficulty dragging colleagues away from junkets to Paris and Bermuda to join him on trips to...
Talk about small acorns and mighty oaks. Requests for Zagat's photocopied survey soon grew to the point that his wife Nina, also an attorney, suggested that they start selling the guide to cover expenses. Now, a decade after that fateful dinner, Tim Zagat is no longer a practicing lawyer...
Prophet took matters into her own hands by inviting all her faithful, who may number some 30,000 worldwide, to move to Montana and escape the coming doom. Followers have begun to converge on the region and lease homes in a church-owned subdivision. At the main headquarters, dubbed the "inner retreat," the group is constructing a system of tubular underground shelters for 756 people. The guns, according to former members, are meant to defend the 600 staffers against a Communist invasion. Former bodyguard Ken Paolini charges that members are being told, "If we come under attack...