Word: quests
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Equally funny, and more irreverent, is novelist Eve Babitz' "Bodies and Souls," which defends and explores the Southern Californian cult of the body. "It has always seemed to me that sex (i.e. inspiring lust) was what L.A. was about," she writes. Babitz' memoir details her own quest to be "totally devastating when it came to pulchritude, blond-haired and smoldering...
Arthur and Irene Seale saw themselves sharing a chic, moneyed life-style most couples just read about. But the Seales' frenzied quest for status ended abruptly with charges of kidnapping and extortion in the abduction of Exxon International president Sidney Reso. Now the Seales face a courtroom battle not only against prosecutors but against each other...
...perverse satisfaction on one occasion when he is included in the Red Brigade's order of battle. In the crowd riots at the World Cup in 1990 he is mistaken by the Italian police for a ringleader and beaten senseless. It is a punishing climax to an eight-year quest...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
...tempers cool and to aid Clinton's quest for white middle-class votes, those Democrats truly interested in recapturing the White House have quite simply shut up. But not Mario. The New York Governor, who only three weeks ago equated Clinton with Bush as he chided both candidates for being "unspecific" (despite the fact that the Democrats have never had a nominee so willing to enunciate programmatic solutions), last Wednesday sought to keep the flap alive by suggesting a Sister Souljah summit at which Jackson, Clinton and Souljah would "reconcile the situation" for "the sake of the country." Someone...