Word: elfs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comedy. Like Valerie, Mary Tyler Moore is a lapsed Catholic and an early starter. The day after she graduated from high school in Los Angeles, where her father worked for a utility company, the young actress won her first TV assignment. She was unforgettable as Happy Hotppint, a sexless elf in appliance commercials. "Nothing can surpass the thrill when I saw myself on television," she remembers. "In fact, I was so excited I almost forgot about the pain. I was supposed to be a flat-chested neuter elf. Well, I wasn't flat-chested, and it was painful...
...elf wed a 27-year-old salesman, Richard Meeker. "I used him as a way to get out of the house," Mary confesses. "It was a pathetic reason to get married." Soon after the Meekers' son Richard was born, Mary landed her first dramatic television role. It was Happy Hotpoint all over again. As the velvet-voiced secretary on Richard Diamond, Mary was invisible, save for her hands and legs...
...reckoning, Joan Miró is probably the greatest living painter, at least of the generation that produced Picasso, Matisse, Gris and Dali. Amidst these driven men, Miró was always the elf, an antic poet who took Surrealism and made it gay, an irreverent abstractionist who planted sexual symbols in wide fields of indeterminate space. He is already so enshrined in art history that it is easy to assume that he is dead. But Miró is alive, and at 80 has taken off in a new creative direction...
...nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people feel good...
...course there is no mold. Bobby is, first, an excellent athlete, one of the best tennis players the game has seen. But more important to his present endeavor, he is also an original-a garrulous, demonic elf, a street-shrewd promoter who has finally found a way to satisfy his gargantuan appetite for both action and attention...