Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bacharach, 57, master songwriter and her collaborator for the past six years (the 1981 Oscar-winning song Arthur's Theme, the current hit That's What Friends Are For): their first child, a boy, born Dec. 3 (Bacharach has a daughter, 19, from his second marriage, to Actress Angie Dickinson); in Los Angeles. Name: Christopher Elton...
Recent events, however, have given me reason to doubt my long-standing loyalty to the Times. It's not that the Times no longer has first-rate coverage of the news. It's just that, as Emily Dickinson would say, it "tells it slant." Slowly but surely, the New York Times has been steering towards the right. Not the idealistic right of Ronald Reagan and the Heritage Foundation, but the pragmatic right of columnists like William Safire and Flora Lewis...
Michigan 59, Fairleigh Dickinson...
...Emily Dickinson...
...sometimes the riled imagination can yield convincing ghosts. Says Marguerite Young, poet and author of the dreamlike novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling: "I see Emily Dickinson quite often, Virginia Woolf, and Dickens. Poe ... oh, all the time, I see him on misty nights at Sheridan Square when the raindrops are falling." Young admits her visions are irrational, yet they are real and useful to her. Even as balanced a writer as Susan Sontag summons up persuasive phantoms, those subtle abstractions that take shape in her essays but scarcely survive outside their contexts...