Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form Fallows has faced the frustration of overcoming what he sees as the issue-less campaign bias of the press. "You hear complaints about an issue-less campaign, and then you try to get an issue past these reporters. It's like driving through the Notre Dame front line. You just can't do it." Fallows recalls the press reception of a speech Anderson wrote a few months earlier, "the most reasoned and eloquent discourse you'd want to find" about how liberalism and conservatism have changed in recent years. "The reporters were bored to tears by it. The only...
...Died. Dame Edith Evans, 88, legendary British actress; in Goudhurst, England. Evans' repertory ranged from Shakespearean tragedy to modern comedy; she created several roles for George Bernard Shaw, who wrote The Millionairess especially for her. Dame Edith made her film debut at the age of 60 in a 1948 version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Her other films included Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel...
...Gladieux, a flake from Notre Dame, made his mark with the Patriots a few years back with the way he used to hurl his body at the wedge set up by the kick return team. Gladieux didn't last long; he got his eggs scrambled a little too much from all of the wedges he busted...
...Superfan grills pregame steaks. Says Brandino: "Football is a passion around which we order our lives. We make friendships over football and we strain friendships. But mostly, football holds us together-especially when we beat one of those big Northern schools." On this year's schedule: Notre Dame. Roll, Tide...
...nothing that Dame Agatha Christie used to be called the mistress of the last-minute switch. For years before her death a year ago at 85, her publishers let it be known that they held two novels "in a vault"-naturally-for posthumous publication. The rumor ran that, not wanting any literary hack to mishandle her characters, Agatha Christie had left books satisfactorily killing off her legendary sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Sure enough, Poirot came to a violent end in Curtain, when it was finally exhumed and published last year...