Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deserves particular credit for the growth of the Lampoon's diverse enterprises, it is Matty Simmons, 51, the man whom Hoffman, Kenney and Beard approached in 1970. A co-founder of the Diners' Club, Simmons quickly saw the need for the Lampoon. "Even the Soviets had adult humor magazines," he recalls, "but we hadn't had one for 30 or 40 years. Once the Lampoon came out, it was the fastest-growing magazine in the country...
...lobbyists have grown so able and strong that last week a mere handful of them was able to kill another bill, one of particular significance to them. It would have required the lobbyists to reveal who pays them, who they represent and what issues they have sought to shape...
...with a number of spies he has known, if not always loved. "I knew all the spies in the U.N. organization itself, but they were not up to much," he says. "The big spies are in the various delegations. In any case the book is not based on any particular episode, and there is no real model for Panin...
...three daughters are a successful poet (Diane Keaton) married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit of an artist, but no gift for any particular art. Late in life father has divorced mother, who grows more visibly dotty as the knowledge sinks in that he will never return; indeed, he has taken up with a sensible widow (Maureen Stapleton) whom the kids hate despite (really because of) her warmth...
Berg includes far too many familiar anecdotes about the depressions and binges of Perkins' famous authors. A law should be passed, in particular, banning any retelling of the booze-soaked Fitzgerald legend for at least 30 years. But it is easy to see why Berg had to fall back on these dog-eared tales. The dramas in Perkins' life occurred in solitude. The thing that distinguished this editor from thousands and thousands of other industrious office workers was a private, inaccessible gift. He could read a manuscript and see the book that the author had hoped to write...