Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbols of anything except a whole family; they were fathers and brothers and husbands, and their relatives wanted them back. The officers in charge of the homecoming at the base also put aside their concern for what the crew symbolized and concentrated on having a standard welcoming ceremony. Real red carpets were out on the runway, the officious M.P.'s were manning rope barricades to keep newsmen from swarming over the place where the men would arrive...
...knocking a gun out of his hand with a cane, asserting a potency he had thought nonexistent. Although ambiguous, the effect is one of total release: we are still in a movie, and in the movies the reality of melodrama always triumphs, as we always knew it could in real life if only given the chance...
...Treasury, will probably help on foreign loans and the other international deals, which are a large part of Lazard's business. Lewis, 38, an aide in the Housing and Urban Development Department before he joined the Budget Bureau last April, is likely to assist on urban real estate projects, another active area for Lazard...
...expected, the government approves. It will be run by the Rothschilds in the pattern of other syndicates that they have formed in Europe. They will buy stock in promising companies in Australia and other Pacific countries but chiefly in Japan, whose economy in 1968 had a real growth of 12%, the highest of any developed nation. Then the syndicate will sell its shares to the public, mainly in Europe, but not in the U.S. or Canada. In those countries, the partners figure, it would not be worth struggling through a maze of taxes, notably the U.S.'s interest-equalization...
...tells the sexual misadventures of Alex Portnoy from priapic adolescence in Newark to insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban intelligence confronting the chaos of modern life and his own psyche -written with irony, outrage and hysterical laughter...