Word: hauntedness
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The specter of a national treasure in foreign hands haunted the French last week as Swiss food conglomerate Nestle unwrapped a hostile bid to take over Source Perrier, France's bottled-water king and a company once deemed financially invulnerable. It was no solace that Italy's Agnelli group, which...
But people could say of Ephron now, at age 50, what Katharine Hepburn once said of her feminist mother -- that she managed to have it all, career, husband, family and fame. One of the themes of Heartburn the novel, Ephron's best work so far, is that no one can...
"They were so thin they looked like Giacometti sculptures -- living stick figures," LaBell recalls. "The photograph so haunted me that I decided I wanted to do something about it." Marrying his pledge to his profession, he came up with a plan to organize a charity art auction for the United...
A noted human-rights activist and scion of one of Georgia's most respected writers, Gamsakhurdia seemed to have perfect credentials for his job. But he was too haunted by his own past persecution by the KGB and by the need to settle old scores to be a truly democratic...
Saddled with such staffers, and with the rhetorical justifications of any number of Cold Warrior speeches by Kennedy, Johnson found himself haunted--and his domestic agenda threatened--by the Kennedy legacy in Indochina. "I left the woman I really loved--the Great Society--in order to get involved with that...