Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reality. It's through the looking glass, dear. Always through the looking glass. Because I do not give the so-called material world its concept of reality. It's through the looking glass that is the reality...
...Referring to his long hair, Robert Engelmann told his family in Hurst, Texas: "You probably don't recognize me. After 400 or so days, I guess we can hang on a little longer, hopefully not too much longer." Fighting back tears, Bruce German of Kensington, Md., addressed his "dear wife Marge" and said, "Since I can't be there in person, I'd like to think I'm there in spirit." Phillip Ward of Culpeper, Va., had some fatherly advice for his son Scott: "Continue the good work in school and help your mother around...
...girl-children [are] nymphets," wrote Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita. Few indeed have the "fey grace... the slenderness of a downy limb" and other nascent charms so dear to a Humbert Humbert. Edward Albee, who is staging a drama based on the novel, chose Blanche Baker over hundreds of preteens to play eleven-year-old Lo to Donald Sutherland's fortyish Humbert. Blanche is 24, but well qualified. She was virtually born for the role: her mother, Carroll Baker, won stardom 24 years ago as the sensuous heroine of Baby Doll. As for Blanche's advanced age, she says...
...news from the Bide-A-Wee home for semiretired movie stars of the '50s is that, all things considered, most of the folks are as lively as crickets. Liz and Rock, Kim and Tony and, of course, dear Angela, all seem enthusiastic about putting their slightly thickened selves on public display so that older members of the audience can check their memories of what once was with what now is, and youngsters can peer quizzically at their parents and speculate on the basis for such odd enthusiasms...
...education of women; through much of Alice's life he remained blissfully unaware of her development. In an extraordinary letter which he wrote during a shopping spree in New York, he told her that he had picked up a "half-hundred" foreign photographs for William. "But they are too dear to permit me to buy any fancy ones for you," the letter continued, "...If I had only brought a little more money with me!" Later in her life, when she threatened to commit suicide during one of her nervous attacks, Henry senior blithely informed her "that...