Word: crawfords
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...have more appropriately chosen the name Algernon, as a warning to themselves. Algernon is the mouse in Daniel Keyes' famous story Flowers for Algernon, and the improvement in its skills is short lived, as is the improvement in the skills of the human experimented on in the tale. FRED CRAWFORD Ellon, Scotland...
...well as in her personal life, where she seemed to have a knack for choosing the wrong man. Now, in her engaging memoir, co-written with Digby Diehl, she recalls her life as a star at MGM alongside such legends as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Williams, always sassy, proves herself to be a daring memoirist. She tells of being raped repeatedly by a foster brother, being pawed by half the men in Hollywood, taking LSD and almost marrying actor Jeff Chandler; at the last minute she found out that he was a cross-dresser. During her four...
...inheritance into a field where attention is the major currency. David Pecker, the former president and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi, George's publisher, recalls that after the 1992 election, Kennedy "became fascinated with the convergence of politics and pop culture," which was the organizing principle of George. Sporting Cindy Crawford on its first cover, George sought to draw celebrity-mad readers to politics, if not always for the most serious reasons--for instance, it ran a beefcake photo of a strategically bared Kennedy in September 1997. George profiled entertainers; it gave bylines to headline-grabbing political figures like Alfonse...
...Crawford, spokesperson for Pittsburgh public schools, doesn't want the issue framed as stadiums vs. schools. "The state has enough to do both," she says. In Philadelphia, 80% of students are poor enough to have something in common with the team owners: they, too, qualify for a free lunch. Unfortunately, they don't have a lunchroom to eat it in at Willard. Maybe they can use the new sky boxes on nongame days...
...Crawford is worried that her efforts to get her grandson back on track could be hampered if the state calls him as a witness against Durr. And she is disappointed at the chill that remains between her family and that of Ryan Harris'. "It doesn't make any sense," Crawford says. "When this case is over, both of us will be right back here in the ghetto...