Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well into his tenth decade, one could spot his cotton-white tufts of hair--always protruding from an austere, black yarmulke--throughout his adopted Israel, visiting this university or that Kibbutz...
...learn as much about American culture by looking at the periphery as by looking at the center," he says. "People are realizing there's more to American studies than Ben Franklin and Cotton Mather...
...research network with no central management system, it was sprawling, unruly, disorganized and almost impossible to navigate. Getting around the Net was like trying to find your way in a foreign city where the streets have no signs, maps are nonexistent, and the locals don't much cotton to strangers' asking questions...
...that's the decade he became friends with Jack Nicholson and hung out with Henry Kissinger. But the '80s weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder was tied to the production of his ambitious box-office flop The Cotton Club. After contemplating suicide and escaping from a mental hospital, and while producing last year's insipid sex thriller Sliver, Evans did what any well-traveled mogul looking for a comeback would do: he wrote his memoirs...
Despite his candor, Evans leaves out some intriguing material. There's no mention of his friend Heidi Fleiss, for example, and he makes just a throwaway reference to his role in a stock scheme that allegedly scammed millions from investors. Even the Cotton Club murder gets short shrift; it's dispensed with in 14 pages. Still, Evans demonstrates that despite his years in Hollywood, he has the right values: he devotes a mere four pages to his tennis game...