Word: axelrod
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DIED. GEORGE AXELROD, 81, author of saucy, acerbic plays and screenplays; in Los Angeles. Once a radio and TV writer, he helped set the tone for pop culture's postwar flirtation with infidelity and angst in his Broadway farce The Seven Year Itch. The film version, with Marilyn Monroe, brought him to Hollywood, where he wrote the scripts for Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's and that classic spiked cocktail of melodrama, satire and treason, The Manchurian Candidate. His two films as writer-director, Lord Love a Duck and The Secret Life of an American Wife, are revered by comedy...
...Kennedys what it costs to go into politics. If they seize what has been held up as a birthright, they must also accept the diminishing, suffocating comparisons that come with walking in the footprints of giants. "They're all competing with icons and legends," says political consultant David Axelrod, who has worked with several of them. That is partly what is drawing them away from Massachusetts, where, as Patrick puts it, "whatever I did, I would be trampling on hallowed ground." But that's only the beginning of what it takes to be a Kennedy in politics today. For this...
Opinions vary greatly, according to experience. Dr. David Axelrod, an ob-gyn in Alexandria, Va., recalls one doula who invited a father in just as Axelrod announced he needed to do a C-section. "That caused a little bit of a fuss," says Axelrod. "But basically a lot of my patients like their doulas, and they're becoming more popular...
...There are very few people in this town that would look at our library and say it does not need some work," says library trustee Janet Axelrod...
...Axelrod gives a detailed description of the problems with the current facility...