Word: avon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Avon Hill resident says she would devote her time on the council to environmental, family and neighborhood preservation issues as well as securing housing, food and human rights for her constituents...
...inconceivable that the Barkerites will "win" the debate -- one might as well expect a huzzah for the superiority of Marlowe among the merry merchants who profit from bardolatry in Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon -- but the festival is already making the case. The highlight of its nine-play season is a spellbinding production of Granville Barker's The Marrying of Ann Leete, written in 1899 when the author was 22 and promptly dismissed as "a practical joke" by the Times of London. A century later, it feels startlingly fresh and new, its language conversational rather than expository, its events surprising...
Gomes and William Morrow and Avon officials did not return telephone calls seeking comment yesterday
...book, tentatively called Fighting for the Bible, will be published by the William Morrow and Avon publishing companies. Gomes told the Observer that the topics will include the Bible and "women, race, anti-Semitism and the environment, and how these topics are interpreted and misinterpreted...
...little later moved to the blue-collar suburb of Clawson, Michigan. To make ends meet, Les worked 12 to 16 hours a day. Every morning Sue would meet friends for breakfast at the Kresge coffee shop nearby, then set out on her route as an Avon Lady. Since her eyesight prevented her from getting a driver's license, she rode a little Amigo scooter. "We were always telling her, 'God, would you slow that thing down?' " says Mary. Sue's customers made their own change. She hooked rugs and played bingo and, by general consensus, spoiled little Danny. Every Sunday...