Word: deford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North. Instead, consider heading south for Everybody's All- American, directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Tom Rickman from Frank Deford's novel. At least you will discover that Louisianans have more fun being miserable, and accomplish it in suaver style, than Minnesotans do. This is the movie that asks, Is there life after the Sugar Bowl? Jan. 1, 1957: that's when Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid) soldered his legend to his destiny by scoring his team's winning touchdown...
Each week brings new evidence that the balance of power is inexorably shifting south. Merrill Lynch recently picked Los Angeles as the place to service its Pacific Rim clients interested in California investments. "My instinct was to go to San Francisco," says Hong Kong-based T.M. Deford, director of the brokerage's Asia Pacific regional office. "But our study showed that the money was going to Los Angeles." Says Agnos' predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, with a bit of resignation: "Los Angeles has 15 million people. We have six million...
...international antiques business. When these books succeed in evoking an environment or ethos, the reader can more readily forgive any lack of suspense or ingenuity in the plot. Sometimes the writer depends on heavy research or personal knowledge: Tennis Star Ilie Nastase and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Writer Frank Deford both published thrillers this year set on the international tennis circuit, and retired Quarterback Fran Tarkenton collaborated on a pro- football mystery. On occasion, the voyage into another world may be largely imaginary: H.R.F. Keating launched his delightful and convincing comic series about Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police -- the latest...
NONFICTION: Alex, the Life of a Child, Frank Deford -The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Peter Watson Characters and Their Landscapes, Ronald Blythe -The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin - Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose -A Warsaw Diary: 1978-81, Kazimierz Brandys
While guilt-ridden parents, who unwittingly carry the disease, divorce at several times the national average because of CF's agonies, Deford and his wife preserved their marriage with an unspoken agreement that both would not cry at the same time. After Alex died in his arms, Deford's guilt turned to futile anger and finally to a transforming admiration for his courageous daughter. "It frightens me most," he concludes, "that I will meet some great test in my life - maybe one for my life, as she did - and I will not be able to do as well...