Word: recherche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend to such recherché places as the Sinai desert and the planet Mars...
...first beneficiary of organized crime is the organized criminal. The second is his well-paid opposition. The detectives, private guards, attack dogs and Kung Fu instructor all flourish in this lawless epoch; close behind are the writers of self-defense manuals. The most recherché of these literary crime fighters is David Krotz, author of How to Hide Almost Anything. Krotz, who is a carpenter as well as a writer, conjures up a harrowing world. Intruders perch upon window sills, second-story men prowl through closets, burglars tiptoe through kitchens and bedrooms. Their quest...
...magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...