Word: phoenician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco had found enough bad loans and shaky business practices to shut it down. After Keating purchased Lincoln in 1984, he switched from investing in safe, single-family mortgages to go-go deals in raw land, junk bonds and huge development projects like the $900-a-night Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...reference. Here one is yet farther from the war. Not a soldier in sight. Only the ancient city and the ancient port, still protected by a Crusader fortress. Kids in bathing suits dangle their legs from the tops of the walls. Pleasure boats bob in the water where the Phoenicians once sailed. Is this Lebanon too? At lunch at the Fishing Club restaurant, one makes cheerful conversation with the owner, Pepe Abed, half Mexican, half Lebanese, who boasts pleasantly about the celebrities who have dined at his place. Producing a huge, elaborate guest book, he points out the autographs...
...Waste Land's familiar cast of characters-Phlebas the Phoenician, Mr. Eugenides, the Fisher King and the rest-do not appear. Instead, there is an Eliotian tone of dissociation, alienation and decay; and it is grafted onto an ambitious composition not unlike the burning phantasmagorias of Bruegel, filled with emblems of evil. Eliot (if it is he) functions, in the picture, like the figure of "Mad Meg" in Bruegel's Dulle Griet, striding through the landscape and inventing it as she goes...