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Word: dearest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanders out into the desert, accompanied by the dearest of his four wives, to begin a search for the oracle that, he is told, will tell him how to end the drought. It seems cornballed at first, simple adventurism, but Updike is never simple. Through Ellello*u. Updike sings an elegy to the open spaces he seems to have just now found: the vast blue sky of Africa, and the rolling plains of the 1950s America in which both Ellellou and Updike attended college. This makes the most beautiful part of the book, striking in its images and complex...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...Mommie Dearest, Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Mommie Dearest, Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Mommie Dearest, Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Other books by women authors such as "Mommie Dearest," stories of actress Joan Crawford by her daughter Christina Crawford, and "Moments of Being," unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolfe, seem to be popular with college-age readers, Peter Barkley, a short-order buyer at Words Worth, said last week...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Stores Report Feminist Books Popular | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

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