Word: ellises
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ELLIS, A PROMINENT RALEIGH LAWYER who has described himself as an "unofficial kibitzer" with the Forbes campaign, was unsuccessfully nominated to the Board for International Broadcasting in the same year as Forbes. At the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1983, Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Ellis...
For all Wolfe's attempts to open up the play to outside influences, he simplifies and limits the text. All the hammering percussion cannot drum up the menace his actors fail to instill. All the bewitching lighting effects cannot etherealize an Ariel (Aunjanue Ellis) who delivers a version of "Full...
Boyd Gaines' Robert similarly embodies a curious split. Is he living in the '70s or the '90s? The production uneasily straddles the two eras. These days Robert's dissatisfied juggling of the women he dates looks a little smug and patronizing. Evidently he doesn't realize he's suffering from...
The Pulitzer Prize for referencing goes to Bret Easton Ellis, whose famously lazy prose has made him the Danny Bonaduce of letters. In the hands of British writer Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch...
That was never a problem for John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Nobody ever accused them of intellectual genius, yet both radiated qualities of leadership with an infectious confidence and openheartedness that endeared them to the nation. Whether President Clinton will be so endeared remains a puzzle. That he is a...