Word: dart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elesina Dart is the dark lady. Well-born, though only moderately wealthy, Elesina is a twice-divorced, hard-drinking rebellious actress in her early '30s when she meets social climber Ivy Trask. Ivy is a homely fashion editor whose shrewdness and harshness eventually garner her more than grace and beauty alone would have. Elesina becomes Ivy's protegee, or more accurately, her obsession, and together they fabricate the credentials necessary to enter the upper echelons of New York society. Ivy becomes an unwanted but tolerated member of the select world but Elesina, after her dramatic and scandalous entrance, becomes first...
Upcoming concerts: Leo Kottke and Leon Redbone this Friday at Symphony Hall; Joan Baez and Jesse Winchester May 21 and 22 respectively at the Orpheum; and America and the Pousette-Dart Band May 23 at the Music Hall...
America, Pousette-Dart Band-Music Hall...
Seconds later, All-Ivy middie Mike Page fired a blue dart past Michelson from up top, and Penn had the game in hand. Freshman Pete Eisenbrandt, whom the Penn coach had been screaming at from the sidelines all afternoon for one miscue or another, atoned for his earlier lapses by notching the insurance marker two minutes later...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...