Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught that the good life was not simply a question...
DIVORCED. Vidal Sassoon, 52, British hair stylist whose geometric cuts helped shape fashion in the post-beehive 1960s and who heads his own beauty products firm; and his second wife Beverly Adams Sassoon, 33, former actress; after 13 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Ancient Rome bestowed laws, roads, imperial machismo, crucifixions, la dolce vita and the drama of decline and fall, the longest-running show in Western history. The city continues to give the impression of crumbling into its own ruins, its reputation as decadence central cheered on by Fellini and Gore Vidal. But like a Verdi heroine dying with a knife in her breast, Rome continues to sing impressively...
...some lazy," said INS District Director Raymond Morris. Upon arrival many broke into cheers of "iLibertad!" and "iViva Presidente Carter!" before being herded into buses and cars for the four-hour drive to the refugee processing center in Miami's Tamiami Park. "I am very happy," said Jorge Vidal, 22, a printer who arrived with his pregnant wife and eleven-month-old son. "We used to hear stories about the U.S. and sometimes on the radio we even heard the voices of America. This is a very good land...
...precedent that courts elsewhere must follow. Nonetheless, many authors and publishers are understandably worried that it could spur similar suits involving other works of fiction, which in the past have rarely been the targets of libel actions. The Supreme Court's decision to let the ruling stand, argues Vidal, is thus in effect "a hunting license, a declaration of open season on almost any sort of novelist...