Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most major stars have a book in them, and with the aid of a ghostwriter, they coax it out. MacLaine, writing without help (although she is extensively edited) has produced three already, and is at work on another. The first, Don't Fall Off the Mountain, (1970), was part career review, part travelogue, with flashes of mysticism. She followed this bestseller with You Can Get Therefrom Here (1975), a reflection on her political activities and her tour of China that struck some critics as naive; it sold less well. MacLaine's biggest success as an author...
...from destiny's consideration on the basis of a victory in the Derby trial that was not victorious enough. His training associate, Swale, Stephens' second favorite three-year-old, was left to carry on. He did so, by 3¼ lengths over a perfect stranger to everyone, Coax Me Chad...
...region of the country seems immune from that interaction. In North Miami, Ira and Ruth Gordon coax their friends to shuffle through their memories. Says Ruth Gordon: "Every couple we've ever invited over to play the game has bought it the next day." Nancy Spencer, a devotee of the game from Clifton, Va., claims, "It's better than charades, and that's hard to beat." She adds, "It's only frustrating when the kids know more than you do." In Hollywood, where game playing is sometimes the most exigent art form, Trivial Pursuit...
...holding its first camera." The body was pear-shaped and the vocal tones were not; they pontificated, or quavered with sentiment. The hands rose and fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire in his eyes and the coil of sexual danger. Sir Ralph walked the earth, with sure, heavy strides. When he left it last week at 80, his place was secure in the triple crown of great...
...procedurals closely enough to make mystery readers comfortable and adds enough variation to keep everyone alert. Hackett realizes that Alice is his best and only hope for information. John James (a pseudonym, apparently) said things in front of his stepdaughters that might lead to his identity; the detective must coax Alice into remembering snip pets of conversation that she did not understand in the first place...