Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheapest way to get protein into cattle is to feed them scraps of animals left over from slaughter," says Richard Rhodes, author of the soon-to-be-released book Deadly Feast (Simon & Schuster), which traces the history of BSE and similar diseases. "When British cows started to get sick, this practice wasn't banned. Instead industry was merely required to avoid using parts from animals known to be infected. This was hardly foolproof, and it was inevitable that some diseased flesh would be eaten by cows and enter the food chain...
...Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric says of the book's creators. "It's stealing." Instead, Simon & Schuster's legal types, mindful of Eloise's 41 years of healthy sales, warned Schrager to stop distributing his book, which he did. "It's resolved amicably," a chastened Schrager told the New York Observer...
...posthumous assault continues in Richard Pollak's The Creation of Dr. B. (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $28), a glum prosecutor's brief that is the second life of Bettelheim to be published within a year. A prolix psychobiography by Anglo-French journalist Nina Sutton, Bettelheim: A Life and A Legacy (Basic-Books; 606 pages; $35), covered the same ground but more sympathetically...
...recent weeks a former high-ranking Dole moneyman received the largest penalty ever connected to an illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including...
With enough expensively soiled laundry for a dozen racy novels, Sally Bedell Smith's savvy unauthorized biography, Reflected Glory (Simon & Schuster; 559 pages; $30), reads as if it had written itself. That, of course, is a hard-earned illusion. The former New York Times reporter and author of a book about Paley has dredged decades of letters, memoirs, social histories and newspaper clippings. She has talked to hundreds of Pamela watchers and has had the benefit of reading Christopher Ogden's Life of the Party, a 1994 biography based on taped interviews Harriman gave Ogden and then prevented him from...