Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay, written by Nora Ephron (Heartburn), traces the love/hate relationship between the two from their first meeting on a cross-country trip after they graduate from college to their marriage 12 years later. Throughout it all, Harry and Sally maintain a hysterical debate on the nature of modern relationships and the ability of each sex to understand the other...
Harvard's Frank Knapp, Farzad Mostashari, Chip Dixon, Peter Olrich and David Ephron won the unofficial national title in the lightweight four division with a 1.8-second victory over second place Yale...
...procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends as "an account of the witch-hunts leading up to the McCarthy...
...trial of Writer Richard Stratton and the 1984 trial of Literary Agent Bernard ("Buzz") Farbar, but denies having been an accomplice. "I made no Fifth Amendment claim then, and I didn't need to," he says. Mailer spoke up after nine prominent writers, including William Styron and Nora Ephron, published a letter in the New York Review of Books charging that Farbar was denied early parole because of his refusal to finger Mailer...
...drama of this 4,000-year story springs from what Johnson identifies as "Jewish obstinacy," the ability to persevere through centuries of persecution and assimilation. He recounts the history of Hebron, where Abraham bought land from Ephron the Hittite. He describes how the first piece of Jewish real estate has been fought over and occupied countless times, most recently by Israel after the Six-Day War, and asks, "Where are all those peoples which once held the place?" His answer: "They have vanished into time, irrevocably. But the Jews are still in Hebron...