Word: pinings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Came In from the Cold, the protagonist, Leamas, was defined as a person who could not quite pass for a London clubman, a "man who was not quite a gentleman." Now, early in his new book, we are told that John le Carre's latest alienated loner, Jonathan Pine, though taken for a gentleman, did not in fact go to "that kind of school." A pungent reminder that the real wars Le Carre has been chronicling -- the class war in Britain, and the civil (very civil) war between one side of a man's soul and the other...
...title character, who is (as usual) a slippery outsider, a "refined impostor" in search of a conscience (or a mission at least), and like nearly all Le Carre protagonists, half German and half English (which is to say, half romantic and half skeptic). A night manager in discreet hotels, Pine is, by definition, a "close observer" of people, a spy -- or novelist -- without a cause. In this instance his eye is trained largely on a glamorous slice of the "English leisure class": a jet-setting arms dealer, Dicky Roper, who is charming enough to be a Cabinet minister; his young...
...fact, Jammal is an actor who has been telling versions of this story for years but has never been on Mount Ararat. Vladimir is a fictitious character, and the supposedly venerable hunk of "ark" wood is a piece of contemporary pine Jammal soaked in juices and baked in the oven of his Long Beach, California, home...
...town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine trees festooned with white paper death notices hung where friends might see them...
...plans for the Mirage in Las Vegas. To build the 3,000-room hotel, he pushed the company's total 1990 debt load to more than $1 billion. He spend $45 million to build a golf course exclusively for high rollers that he lined with 21,000 pine trees trucked in from California and Arizona. The risk paid off: in 1991, the Mirage's second year, operating cash flow hit $201 million, a record for a single casino...