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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolling a cigarette between her fingers as she speaks. "We were really poor then. Sounds funny to say it. We didn't know it then. But sitting at Harvard, surrounded by all this affluence, you realize no one here thinks of eating road kills. But that is what we ate. And my dad would go out and shoot squirrels. Now I walk around and see also those fat squirrels scampering about and I think hmmm," she says, cocking her head and peering at an imaginary squirrel...
...wearing an old purple dressing gown made by his wife Sophia. Hawthorne's wardrobe also had its formal side, we discover, although at one time he refused to wear "the white muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about Hawthorne's diet--at one dinner he ate cutlets, fricassees, ragouts, tongue and chickenpies--and about his wife's wardrobe (Sophia's first ball dress, a "superb brockade," was "paletinted, low-neck, and short-sleeved"). Other minor details abound from the cost of Hawthorne's trip from Rome to Florence (95 scudi, with an additional five crowns...
...days later, at his first press conference in six weeks, duly covered as a presidential, not a political news event by the big three networks, Carter ate up six of the allotted 30 minutes by making an opening statement about his accomplishments-a tactic that so angered the Reagan and Anderson camps that they asked for equal time. They may not have needed it, so thoroughly did reporters question Carter about his "mean" campaign assaults. "Obviously in the heat of a campaign there is some give-and-take on both sides," he said. He twice emphasized that...
...given to "gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came out of the shower, "ate his breakfast and told his wife, Joan, that he wanted to launch nuclear power plants as, in effect, ships on the ocean. 'There you go again,' she said...
...good colorful film resume is maker; a no $60,000 guarantor of budget a doesn't automatically confer nobility on a movie project; too many expert novelists have lost their way on Hollywood Boulevard. But Sayles has proved that his gift as a "legit" writer - that sharp, compassion ate eye for behavioral detail and human comedy - can transfer to the screen with out condescension or loss of nuance. "Film is a delicate medium," says one of Sayles' short-story characters (ironically, of course). Now Sayles has the chance to bring his imagination to the medium and make...