Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR Directed by Robert Mulligan Screenplay by Bernard Slade...
...characters are Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Alan Alda), strangers who meet at a motel and end up in bed. Though married to others, the hero and heroine continue their affair on a one-weekend-per-year basis. Luckily, Writer Bernard Slade monitors the couple at five-year rather than annual intervals...
...rough-and-ready world of prizefighting, Gene Tunney was unique. Self-educated and fiercely proud, he remained determinedly aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...
...talented Latin American history major lets the compliments come her way; she is reluctant to praise herself, even a little. She quickly passes over her three-sport high school career at St. Bernard's in Uncasville, Conn., brushing aside the details of a tennis-basketball-track triple that included some fine performances throwing the javelin...
...present tenant is the Most Rev. Bernard J. Topel, 75, for the past 22 years the Roman Catholic Bishop of Spokane and thus the spiritual leader of a diocese numbering 74,000 souls. People who worry about the worldly dignity of the church militant will be pleased to know that the bishop's residence was finally painted by volunteers four years ago. But going to lunch with his excellency might give them pause. These days, when the bishop brings home a guest, he tends to grin and confess, "Lost the front door key. We'll have...