Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest problem is cantankerous Grandma (Ellen Bledsoe), who resents her infirmity and unwantedness and never misses an opportunity to say so. Even though she is half senile, Grandma is still the most astute character in the play, spouting angry aphorisms like, "We live in the age of deformity...
...with medication and counseling, Stelian was able to finish college. But for the next 20 years, he was chronically unstable, aggressively hostile toward his younger brother, going so far as to distribute leaflets urging people to vote against his re-election as a state representative. In 1973, at the age of 42, Stelian was hit by a car while riding his bike; he slipped into a coma and died four months later...
...long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while one of America's Founding Gardeners, Thomas Jefferson, lived...
That is precisely the sort of song -- raw and nasty, full of bluff brimstone -- that never made it into the carnal candy land evoked by the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. The shrewdly calculated saga of a girl's coming of age in 1963, the film Dirty Dancing is responsible more than anything else for this new slew of what might be called pube rock. The movie was so perfect a young teen dream, it became almost poignant. You had to see it to believe it, and many did. Dirty Dancing pulled in $65 million at the box office...
...other English artist has ever been as popular in his own time, with as many people, in as many places, as David Hockney. At 50, an age at which J.M.W. Turner was hardly known in France and Henry Moore was only just beginning to enter collections outside Britain, Hockney has the kind of celebrity usually reserved for film stars but rarely visited on serious artists -- Picasso and Warhol being the big exceptions. Merely to see his blond hair and round glasses across a crowded room, let alone hear his Yorkshire voice droning unstoppably on about Picasso, cubism...