Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
...Pat Conroy's mammoth new novel "jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here...
...Pat Riley, who won four NBA titles in nine seasons as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, resigned today after failing to capture a championship ring in four seasons with the New York Knicks. Riley turned down a $15 million contract extension in part, says TIME sports writer Steve Wulf, because Knicks management would not give him the control he wanted to wield over the composition of the team...
...sure, Dole's remarks were an unmistakable pitch to the culturally conservative wing of the Republican Party, which will have a lot to say about who becomes the next G.O.P. presidential candidate. Dan Quayle, their favorite son, never entered the race. Pat Buchanan, their guilty pleasure, is probably too extreme to be elected. Even before it turned out that he once invested in an R-rated film, Phil Gramm of Texas had left them cold. Until recently, so had Dole, who never showed much interest in the politics of virtue before the Christian right emerged as a power bloc...
Also leading the team were face off specialist junior Pat McCulloch, named the team's Unsung Hero and sophomore defenseman Jeremy Linzee, who was selected as the Most Improved Player...