Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blabbing of his amours, the most heinous offense a gentleman may commit is to divulge the name and whereabouts of that movable mecca, the small, inexpensive, discrete, family owned restaurant with a menu of rare enticements and threefork ambience. The temptation to tell can be strong. John McPhee, 48, author of the bestselling portrait of Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite restaurant...
...Ellington himself; neither the program notes nor the staging made even the minimal attempts Ain't Misbehavin' does to educate its audience. Still, in the end there's no substitute for hearing these songs, and if they don't excite you about the life and times of their author then no amount of background information will. The staging, the dancing, the acting sometimes fitted together and sometimes missed altogether in Ellington at Eight, but where it counted--in the tunes--the performers didn't let the Duke down...
...Crews' fear and passion, it is another actor, Robert Blake. In "Television's Junkyard Dog," Blake confesses a Freudian nightmare that might serve as an episode on his TV series, Baretta. "I have a dream, and I bet I have it once a week," he tells the author. "Wherever I am, what ever I'm doing, I'm naked. And I can't get no clothes on. Sometimes I'm at the airport and sometimes I'm at school in a hall way. Can't get no door open. To get inside...
Blood and Grits may give the author a feeling of defeat. It gives the reader a sense of triumph...
Goldman is co-author of "Dope Incorporated," a recently published book which documents a British intelligence trade conspiracy and which likens major Zionist organizations to the Mafia...