Word: crawfordisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night watchman who discovered the Watergate break-in, a rebel United Mine Workers leader, a professional wrestling promoter, a retired president of a Chicago bank, an anti-FDR Black, and ex-gun moll, Ted Turner, Coleman Youn and others. They are not all nice people--the interview with Joan Crawford, conducted in 1963, is particularly damning, given the revelations of Mommie Dearest. Terkel just lets them talk, egomaniacs, saints and sinners. They only differ from a truly representative sample of the nation in that they are probably more interesting--hardly a grave flaw...
...Crawford calls the bill "one of the most restrictive pieces of anti-abortion legislation in the country...
...case, now pending before the Supreme Judicial Court, is the first time a legal link between the ERA and abortion funding has been invoked in court, Jean Marshall Crawford, a spokesman for the National Organization for Women, said yesterday...
Stripped of its Whitmanesque rhetoric, this means the fixture as before: first person singularities from the prominent (Miss U.S.A., Ted Turner, Joan Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger), the recognizable (Baseball Maverick Bill Veeck, Novelist Jill Robinson, Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner) and the totally obscure. All of them are highly individual, all discuss some aspect of that worn shibboleth, the American Dream. As they talk, platitudes give way to testimony, and the vision becomes a document...
...Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight in the arts. "I disapprove of much," he once said, "but I enjoy almost...