Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make the most money. In failing to understand Fitzgerald's disillusionment, Dardis' study falls short...
...sides will go on "covering their tails," Pogrund projects, and he cites the number of U.S. allies that have heavy trade and shipping ties to South Africa: Japan, France, Israel and particularly Britain, which, he points out, "is in appalling financial straits and can hardly afford to abandon its commerce with South Africa...
...think that when a woman reaches menopause, it's the end of romance," announced Actress Gloria Swanson, 77. "But it's really the beginning of everything because there's no worry about whether to get pregnant or not. Women find a sense of freedom and abandonment." Swanson's verbal abandon came during a taping of TV's syndicated Good Day show. The unsilent screen star discussed her taste in men ("broad shoulders and narrow hips") and her recently acquired sixth husband, Author William Dufty, 60. "Biologically, a woman is younger and lives longer...
MASSACHUSETTS STATE representative Barney Frank '61 said last week Dapper "is not an amiable joke.... There is nothing positive about him." O'Neil blasts other public figures with abandon. He claims Reverend Ralph Abernathy is a "perverted degenerate" with a preference for 15-year-old girls, black activist Bayard Rustin a "homosexual fag," and that the two sons of Tom Atkins, leader of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, were arrested for pursesnatching. The lawyer to whom he said he had shown a transcript of Abernathy's and Rustin's sex trials said last week she has no recollection...
...Rhodesian rebellion may be at an end, but Ian Smith does not plan to abandon his country. After all, he and his family still have 21,500 acres of prime ranching and farming land to tend in south-central Rhodesia. Says he: "I have no intention of leaving...