Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture of guilt, hate, envy, love, and grief that William a young husband and father, feels for Eddie his oldest and best friend. The story jump about in time to tell how William avoided the draft and courted Ellen, his future wife, while Eddie was killed in Vietnam, and how Eddie possibly fathered Ellen's child before he was killed. Watching the little girl now, William wonders, and finds it "not so simple now as then, not easy to be a part of Ellen without knowing or wanting to know...
...favorite recreation was fox hunting. Consider that now: a President pounding over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam...
...retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen (a director whose credits included Death Takes a Holiday) died here...
SENTENCED. Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, 36, former all-pro running back for the Miami Dolphins during the glory years of the early '70s, who was convicted last November on cocaine-trafficking charges; to 20 years in prison, five more than the mandatory minimum. Said Circuit Judge Ellen Morphonios Gable, who pronounced sentence: "George [Yoss, the prosecutor] and I both like Merc, but we've got to do what...
...Mary Ellen Dyler...