Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the author's early myopia about wealth and poverty, her book is an astonishingly candid war diary of will vs. psychosis and despair. True, the record glistens with names: William Randolph Hearst, Constance Bennett, the Prince of Wales and, of course, a parade of Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But they are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. Once Upon a Time is no clothbound gossip column, and its heroine is not the triumphant lady of the commercials, with shiny eyes and fixed grin. She is the buried child of long, long ago, still eager to please, still...
Anthologies serve as our means of determining the representative poets of an age. Of course Lonsdale's edition still includes the poetry of the most renowned eighteenth century poets such as Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake. Yet the new edition also includes a wealth of posey from more obscure pens. Included in Lonsdale's volume are poems from people of all walks of life including women peasants, and the always elusive Anonymous. The anthology offers a more representative sampling of poems--Lonsdale includes 230 to Smith's 137--and a better feeling for the people of the time...
...images and powerful, if tortured emotions, Fernanda Eberstadt's Low Tide is well worth the read. It is the tale of Jezebel, a 19-year-old Manhattanite, and the two sons of her father's oldest friend. The latter pair are located in England where they squander their fabulous wealth in unimaginable ways...
...appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...
...overwhelming wealth of statistical information on the volume is potentially debilitating--there is enough here to keep you from ever putting to down and going...