Word: barbarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should one suppose that these are dreaming connoisseurs who have just relinquished the ink block and the brush to dabble in the art of the namban, or round-eyed barbarian. Shigeki Kameyama, representing the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo, last week bought, among other things, Picasso's The Mirror at $26.4 million. The week before, he had also purchased De Kooning's Interchange at $20.68 million and a Brice Marden drawing at $500,000 at Sotheby's. Kameyama is known to other dealers as "Oddjob," after Goldfinger's hat-flinging chauffeur...
...except to repeat this slogan? We are freedom fighters, and we are proud of it. According to international law and the United Nations Charter, I have the right to resist Israeli occupation. I don't want to harm anybody. But look how they are treating my people. These savage, barbarian, fascist practices against our children, our women...
...lame-duck days of the Roman Empire, barbarian tribes frequently jostled one another as they trundled across the Eurasian landmass. Sometimes the stronger would displace the weaker, sometimes they would wage war among themselves, and occasionally there was a process of cooperation and mutual assimilation. And so it has been with the various factions that seek to control the turf of America's political parties. New tribes wander in and displace older ones, struggling every now and then to capture the soul of their party. Only rarely does a leader come along who can smother factional rivalries and give definition...
...only the ring seemed to reach out for Holmes, though Tyson tried. "At his best, he was the greatest of our time," said the undefeated young barbarian, 21, who meant it kindly. "I always used to want Holmes to win, except when he fought Ali." So even afterward, Tyson was landing one- twos. In the prefight keynote, one last time, the vague old champ Muhammad Ali was paraded in front of the unfortunate man whom history had designated to follow him. Later, as Holmes spun drunkenly about the ring, Ali's former corner physician Ferdie Pacheco murmured, "Those...
Producer Dino De Laurentiis is known for some oversize movies, among them Conan the Barbarian and the 1976 remake of King Kong. But now the flamboyant founder of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall Street speculators were pouring money into the Beverly Hills-based firm, but it lost $20.5 million during the six months ending in August, thanks in part to such flops as Tai-Pan and King Kong Lives. To raise cash, the company is struggling to find buyers for its library...