Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEST INTENTIONS, Robert Sam Anson CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman -- IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY, Vassily Aksyonov ORPHANS: REAL AND IMAGINARY, Eileen Simpson -- RACING THROUGH PARADISE, William F. Buckley Jr. -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin
...lessons American movies might learn. Still, one retreats with relief to the accustomed elegances of a well-made film like The Whistle Blower. To be sure, the paranoia that long ago settled damply around our spy dramas seems to have drifted eastward to infect Writer Julian Bond and Director Simon Langton. Their story has the British espionage establishment protecting a highly placed mole by murdering innocent, clerkish underlings in an attempt to convince its American allies that it is doing something about a leak the latter are complaining about...
...does more for the ego than to be aboard the biggest, most beautiful yacht as it pulls into the harbor." Rates run $49,000 a week for Parts V, $30,000 for the Atlantique (which has been chartered by, among others, Sophia Loren, former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and FORTUNE 500 executives) and $29,000 for Never Say Never. The charter party must also pay for fuel ($50 to $75 an hour), food, dockage and tips for the spiffy crew...
...then, a full year before Election Day 1988, most candidates will be debating more often than members of the Oxford Union. Campaigns are besieged by would-be hosts; both Senator Paul Simon of Illinois and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis have more than 50 invitations to debate their Democratic rivals...
Even where the vaunted computer revolution has lightened jobs, U. S. workers put in longer hours, with less absenteeism, than most of their counterparts around the world. But the main reason is often economic necessity. -- Former Treasury Secretary William Simon is building a financial empire out of ailing thrifts. -- Bankers declare North Korea to be in default on its foreign debt...