Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill Ledford, editor of the weekly paper in Vidalia, Ga., popped into the Vidalia Chamber of Commerce the other day with an idea about a porcelain onion. He told Dick Walden, the executive vice president of the Chamber, that he had met an artist in Charleston, S.C., and that he harbored a notion to commission her to fire him up some onions. "She makes squash, beans, everything," said Ledford, a little excitement rising in his voice. "She even makes an onion," he continued, "but it doesn't look like our onion. It's not flat and squatty enough...
...area whose inhabitants speak lyrically. Dick Walden, for example, momentarily dropping the subject of onions, will allow he is fond of fishing "those flatwoods rivers with the tea-colored water-not the big, muddy, silted ones coming down from the high country, taking a little more of Georgia to the sea every...
...mind heaves with possibilities: The Sisters Karamazov? Twelve Angry Ladies'? Young Girl with a Cornet? Mrs. Roberts? How long before the world is treated to a revival of Moby Dick, starring Victoria Principal as Captain Alice and ubiquitous Meryl Streep as the passionate yet complex crew? Or Steven Spielberg's E.T.T.E.? Or Richard Attenborough's epic film biography of the Indian pacifist Blandhi...
...They are abetted by modern "experts," among them Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Irving Howe and Bruno Bettelheim, in effect playing themselves playing themselves. Like Allen, they have perfect pitch. But Allen skewers not only the modern TV form but the loopy manner of the show's antique sources. Dick Hyman contributes songs like You May Be Six People, but I Love You that catch the flavor of hasty topicality, and Cinematographer Gordon Willis recaptures the conventions of oldtime photography. The match between his footage and genuine historical shots is perfect...
DIED. Marion Monroe, 85, child psychologist and co-author of the Dick and Jane schoolbooks, which instructed millions of U.S. children to "see Spot run" and to begin reading; in Long Beach, Calif. Written with the late William Gray and others, Monroe's classic primers were widely used from the 1930s until the early '70s, when educators began to favor a stronger phonics approach instead of the "look-say" learning method and to criticize the series' exclusively white middle-class characters...