Word: braggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and a 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...
...Melvyn Bragg...
...venerate in life is not love but language. This, surely, is not the Richard Burton of the boozy brawls, the ruined talents, the tossed-away millions on baubles for Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises can remain about a man who spent a life in the headlines. But the raw material made available by Burton's widow included letters and 350,000 words of diaries. That unforgettable speaking voice turns out to have been matched by a colorful...
Seth Handy, playing at number seven, recorded a five-game victory against James Bragg...
...promoter said tickets for the Friday nightconcert in Boston's Opera House were not sold out,but might have been if students had known it wastheir only chance to see Bragg. He said Bragg wasmore concerned about his fans' disappointment andthe ticket money than he was with attempting legalaction...