Word: venality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many perceive investment bankers as materialistic and venal, Wilson says his future profession gets...
Some of the Californians glomming onto Clinton are silly ("A lot of these people," says one of his Hollywood intimates, "have never been to Washington before"), yet unlike all other well-connected capital hangers-on, these visitors don't come for a tax break, a contract or any venal purpose; they ask not what their country can do for them. Although Medavoy (like Streisand) works for the Japanese, he says that nudging Clinton on trade policy is "the last conversation I'd ever have with him. I don't lobby the President...
This strict ethos of honesty comes straight from the country's remarkable founding leader, Lee Kuan Yew, now 69, who "believed anything venal had to be destroyed," says Bilveer Singh, a leading political scientist. "Lee basically weeded out corruption by giving it no excuse or legitimacy...
Hemingway was wrong. The very rich are not different from you and me. They can be just as foolish and venal as the rest of us. Over the years it has been difficult to pity Ann Woodward. Certainly Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne were merciless in their barely disguised fictional portraits of social climbing metastasized into murder. But in Susan Braudy's lackluster account, readers are permitted at least an occasional twinge of compassion as they watch a gawky girl from the Kansas plains emerge from the chrysalis of gritty rural poverty into Manhattan on the eve of World...
...long and powerful harangue about the death of the man Stone keeps calling "the slain young king." What are the rules of Stone's game? Is Stone functioning as commercial entertainer? Propagandist? Documentary filmmaker? Historian? Journalist? Fantasist? Sensationalist? Paranoid conspiracy-monger? Lone hero crusading for the truth against a venal Establishment? Answer: some of the above...