Word: ella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the 200 mostly female attendees, who ranged in weight from chubby to barely making it out of the bus, even sat through all the speeches and chants at Palisades Park in Santa Monica, Calif. Ella Lou Wann, whose daughter Marilyn, 31, wore a FAT!SO? T shirt and made the crowd-pleasing observation that "life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks," handed out 150 ginger cookies...
...were Hillary, I would forget about any sort of "trade love for power" deal and jump ship in a heartbeat. ELLA HO North York...
Some families travel well. Not mine. When Zoe and Ella aren't behaving like Curly and Moe in the back seat--finger jabs, nose tweaks and attempted first-degree wedgies--baby Clementine is performing one of her eerie, hour-long imitations of the Emergency Broadcast System. That's why I decided to use the Web to help me navigate during my recent summer vacation. I figured that the more I knew about the route I'd be driving--how many miles to the destination, how far between rest stops, even how to get there in the first place--the better...
...Book had been, so far, flawless. But now the printout was advising that I detour to the south; all the traffic, however, was proceeding due east. What to do? Heed the computer's advice, or follow the herd? Stupidly, I hadn't packed an atlas or road map. "Ella pinched me!" someone shrieked in steerage. Tick-tick-tick. "Follow the traffic," hissed My Wife Who Is Never Wrong...
...list of suspects is somewhat predictable: Ike Fisher, Ella's ex-husband whose post-marital relationship seems more forced than it was forged; Lindsey Wentworth, Ella's upper-class executive assistant with a few secrets of her own; Christian Chung, the University comptroller rumored to have vied for Ella's job; Ian McAllister, head of the Economics Department and a staunch opponent of Ella's policies, and Leo Barrett, Harvard's newest president with a past to which only Ella was privy. Diverse though these characters may seem, the author makes little effort to develop their behaviors or idiosyncrasies...