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...little hesitant at first," says Dangerfield. "I only have two ties." The $5 cravat-identical to the one he wore for his first television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 15 years ago-is a veteran of 65 Tonight show appearances. The shirt is an $85 white voile Beck & Sobel number (18-in. collar, 33½-m. sleeve). Shrugs Rodney: "They'll probably use the shirt to clean Lindbergh's plane." Now Lindbergh, there was a fellow who got respect...
Tyler does not trivialize motives with rationalizations. She launches her imagined lives and describes their trajectories with an unpretentious sense of fate. No explanations are necessary when Beck Tull, a retired traveling salesman, attends the funeral of the wife he left 35 years before and acts as if he has been on a long business trip. This occurs at the end of Homesick Restaurant, and the reader is not surprised. The scene has had careful preparation, and Tull has been well defined by his absence. He is the black hole around which his wife Pearl and children Cody. Jenny...
...just wanted to let everyone know that Barnard hasn't died, and we're still around," team captain Nora Beck said of her squad excursion...
...young writer isolated here was hardly a flaming rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the perfect bourgeois figure for a young artist to revolt against...
Middle distance runner Darlene-Beck-ford took an unusual route to a usual finish. Beckford, who likes to dit back early in the race, proved she can run from the front equally well, breaking her track record in the 1500 meters with a time...