Word: delia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Allison's deeply etched females are pulled both ways. Like Delia Byrd in Allison's Cavedweller (E.P. Dutton; 435 pages; $24.95), they can achieve escape velocity and attempt dangerous re-entries...
...certificates of special studies (C.S.S.), nine certificates in applied science (C.A.S.), six certificates in public health (C.P.H.), 12 certificates in museum studies (C.M.S.), three certificates in publishing and communication (C.P.C.) and two diplomas in English for graduate and professional study (D.G.P.), according to Assistant Director for Certificate Programs Delia Gerraughty. The ceremony will occur in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...book by Kay Thompson. But perhaps ex-con turned innkeeper-to-the-image-conscious Ian Schrager loved her a teensy bit too much. Schrager published a parody of the children's classic in book form as a high-concept promotional brochure for his Miami hostel, the Delano. In Delia at the Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric says of the book's creators. "It's stealing." Instead...
...They are made by clever craftsmen who for next to nothing provide professional gloss and a story no worse than most movies and TV shows. And if you're looking for strong B-movie stars, look no further. Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles. Delia Sheppard (Mirror Images), who has retired from DTV to star in the Las Vegas extravaganza Splash, excelled as a naughty Brit on a Hollywood bender. Lysette Anthony (Save Me) promises prurience beneath the primness; her blond middle-class looks make her a natural to play Hillary Clinton...
...LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler (Knopf). Here's an almost perfect summer-weight, drip-dry, easy-care novel. Delia Grinstead is terminally comfortable, or nearly so, in her life as a 40-year-old wife and mother. The trouble is she has become all but invisible, even to herself. So, one day, on the faintest of whims, she wanders away from the family beach house and lights out for the territories. Such fantasies have grabbed all of us now and then, and Tyler writes her runaway's adventures not just as stylish comedy but as intriguing possibility...