Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admittedly, Kennedy, with his broad shoulders and friendly grin, running through the streets, cut a striking portrait of virility. But it was more than macho posturing. It was the legendary Kennedy mystique at work...
...astonishing as those he accumulated: three of them. No Series pitcher had given as good as he got since the Yankees' Don Larsen went 0-for-2 in 1956. Orel yielded three singles but took two doubles and a single back. Stretching the ridiculous was a pregame portrait of his Rockwellian mom and dad, the Little League Parents of the Year, tossing out first balls...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...charges painted a portrait of greed and corruption that began in Manila and continued in Honolulu. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said Marcos funneled the stolen money through secret bank accounts and then used it to buy four Manhattan buildings. The indictment accused Marcos of having defrauded U.S. lenders of more than $165 million that was borrowed to finance the properties. Co-defendants include Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian financier, arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-contra scandal, who allegedly posed as the owner of the properties to protect the Marcos interests. "This case amounted to the Marcoses and their...
...Physics at Harvard and Nobel Laureate, is the latest in a long line of contemporary scientists to try to popularize his trade with a book aimed at the general public.Interactions is intended to be scientific autobiography which will allow the reader to share in "the search for the ultimate portrait of the universe, as seen through the eyes of one of its searchers...