Word: bookend
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...think I can understand why I choose to remember my first year in bookend fashion. This way, the fears, tensions, and discoveries comfortably blend without order or progression, and I can leave the mysteries unsolved, faded into the collective memory...
Queen is not exactly a sequel to Roots (Roots: The Next Generations, all but forgotten, aired in 1979), but it is a fitting bookend. It is based on Alex Haley's account of the other side of his family, namely his paternal grandmother, who was the illegitimate daughter of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress. When Haley died last February, he was in the process of dictating the story to screenwriter David Stevens. Stevens has now fashioned it into a six-hour drama that John Erman (An Early Frost) has directed and CBS, with much fanfare, will present...
...Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with what Director Billy...
...move closer to the field, familiar faces come into view. Co-captain Cat Ferrante, out wide on the left side of the field, and junior Laura Mayer playing bookend on the right. Juniors Kelly Gately and Jeannie Piersiak anchoring the fullback line. Senior Ellen Jakovic, out nearly all of last season with a broken foot, in a new position on the fullback line. Janet Judge, who started at the end of last year, now firmly entrenched in the goal. But there are new faces as well...
...home to the dazzling rookie with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett. In the old days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted of calling Defensive Tackle Robert Lilly "Bob." Now the Cowboys boast "Manster" Linebacker Randy White (for each of the things he is half of) and the bookend defensive ends, Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Harvey "Too Mean" Martin. Then there is Tom "Hollywood" Henderson, who, during the offseason, dated one of the Pointer Sisters...