Word: bloomings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CyberCoins could let thousands of such harebrained Web schemes bloom. Take Worbble, a multiplayer word game created by Headgames Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, that is set to hit the Web next week. From five to 2,000 players at once will look for words hidden in a 3-by-3 grid; the first player to find each word will win $10 to $60. The entrance fee: one buck. The currency: CyberCoin. "The product fits our marketing strategy like a glove," says Headgames president Ray Speichert...
...these stereotypes (even feminist stereotypes), if only to prove the rules of its game: that films must be tailored to the appetites of young men; that women will go to male-oriented movies but men can't be dragged to women's pictures; that an actress's bloom as a box-office icon (Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster) can soon fade, while the appeal of male stars (Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman) stays solid for decades...
...English actress Claire Bloom may have known all this in 1990, when she and Roth at last wed after 15 difficult and profoundly engaging years living together in London and Connecticut. Yet according to Bloom, nothing prepared her for the mental collapse she says Roth suffered in the early 1990s and for the subsequent psychological torture he inflicted on her--a shattering breakdown that is the climax of Bloom's new memoir, Leaving a Doll's House (Little, Brown; 272 pages...
...Bloom's descriptions of her now ex-husband's bizarre behavior--which included sending her bills for $150 an hour for the hundreds of hours he spent going over scripts with her and for $62 billion for contesting their prenuptial agreement--have been setting New York City literary circles abuzz, but Bloom waits until she is more than halfway through this memoir to begin dishing the dirt. For, Roth aside, Bloom, 65, has her own moderately interesting story to tell. She starred in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight, played virtually every major classical role on the stage and has acted opposite...
...Roth, though, Bloom sacrificed everything. Early in their relationship, for instance, the author told Bloom that he refused to share a home with Anna, and the girl, 18, was promptly kicked out. Then in 1993, Bloom writes, Roth spiraled into a severe, inexplicable depression. He was institutionalized and became deeply paranoid, accusing his wife of trying to poison him, dredging up misdeeds, real and imagined, and, in the end, divorcing her. With this sad memoir Bloom gets the last word--for now. But it is hard not to wonder what will happen when Roth turns his novelist...