Word: lavishness
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...Remarkable Women" wraps up with some uninspiring shots of feminists and the lavish deification of "five great spirits:" Helen Keller, Clara Barton, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson. Back to the safe and approved, back to the biographies that line the shelves of small-town elementary schools. One hundred and fifteen pages, and Eleanor Roosevelt is still the queen of them all. Oh well...
...part, this was because Miki could only enhance his image as the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime L.D.P. opponent Tanaka could only be hurt. But Miki also recognized that the Japanese public, long ago sickened by the lavish spending of Japanese politicians-and keenly impressed by the U.S.'s forthright handling of Watergate-would not tolerate a coverup...
...freely in Paris as it was last week. Storming the barricades of conventional fashion was Designer Yves Saint Laurent, 40, whose latest haute couture collection could alter the way women will dress in the next decade. The 800 or so journalists, store buyers and private clients invited to the lavish showing were awestruck. Some were even reduced to tears as Saint Laurent's models glided along the runway, demonstrating what many predicted would be the New New Look: narrow waist, calf-length bouffant skirt for daytime and huge, all-enveloping coat...
...passage not only describes Agnew's novel, but Ehrlichman's The Company as well: intrigue, lavish and exotic settings, vapid romances, powerful men doing important things, and a sense of vacancy surrounding it all. The passage doesn't describe some of the other aspects of these two pop gov thrillers: an overriding concern with power, fame, the good life, and the ambition that drives people to seek such things. Ehrlichman actually describes what these two novels are about in a short preface. He writes that while the characters are fictitious, "the forces--the stresses, pressures, fears and passions--that motivate...
...million "confidential fund," which is supposed to be spent on informants. Hoover's top aides sometimes drew on the fund for lavish dinner parties, costing up to $500, at the Carriage House, a Georgetown restaurant. The only informing that took place at the blowouts was done by the agents themselves-no actual informants ever attended. Recalling one of the dinners, an agent told TIME: "It started with cocktails and crab meat, then there were oysters, followed by steak and wine and French pastries and brandy. When I got home, I was woozy. My doctor believed that I was having...