Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the Fleet Streeters have created their own free-lance agencies so they can work from their home offices. "Celebs prefer phoners," says Neil Blincow, ex-columnist for the Enquirer, now owner and operator of the Palm Beach Press. "They don't have to get dolled up, and if the interview gets nasty, they can cut you off." Boutique Owner Stone marvels at his chums' newfound nesting instincts. "Boy, our crowd has matured," he says. "Thank God, on a full moon we still break...
...billion day-care plan introduced by Democrats in Congress that would apply federal standards to day-care facilities and provide money to states for subsidizing those who send their children to approved facilities. The two approaches illustrate a fundamental difference in the parties' philosophy: the Democrats prefer a directly financed Government program, Republicans tax incentives and less federal involvement...
...powers of deduction. The plot seems to have been inspired by the life of Howard Hughes: it involves both a plutocrat so reclusive that he is rumored to be dead and a daring literary forgery -- this time a "lost" Conan Doyle manuscript. Rendell has often said that she would prefer to concentrate on individual stories of twisted minds, but feels compelled by her fans to revive the suburban detective team of rumpled Reg Wexford and prissy Mike Burden. Having indulged her own preference to dazzling effect in her past seven volumes -- two published under her alternate byline, Barbara Vine -- Rendell...
...Journalist Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved out of the compound without further hassle...
...there were one, would the crowds go? In the U.S., Braque is not a sexy painter. Americans prefer their artists to be overreachers in the short run, romantic heroes or doomed saints in the long. Braque was neither. Apart from youthful enthusiasms for boxing and fast cars, his life was completely taken up by his marriage and his art; German shrapnel in his head in World War I must have given him the respect for mortality that few artists get until middle age. Braque was a tortoise, not a hare, and his art had none of Picasso's impetuous virtuosity...