Word: erine
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...Erin Evans, the second Sooner batter, singled up the middle to drive home Ring, giving Oklahoma a quick 1-0 lead...
...Kanfer's book is devoted to these later years, from You Bet Your Life through the great man's canonization in the '60s and finally into the horrifying battle over his property and his person waged between Groucho's children and the confused old man's last inamorata, Erin Fleming (he was 80; she was roughly 30). Kanfer excels in these saddest decades not because he's engaged in the black art of what Joyce Carol Oates calls "pathography," but because this is the period he can document most intimately through interviews with surviving witnesses. Necessarily, earlier sections...
Dryer and Erin B. Ashwell '02, co-chair of the IOP working group that developed the survey, said they came up with the idea for the survey last fall when they noticed that many of their friends were involved in community service but not politically active...
Last week the film passed the $100 million mark in box-office receipts, and people were speculating that Julia Roberts might win an Oscar for her uplifting role as the gutsy and busty Brockovich. But in Hinkley, plenty of people are angry over Erin, which they feel portrays the lawyers as white knights and the townspeople as a bunch of hicks. Residents are angry because, while the movie makes it seem that justice was done, in fact only 600 of the town's 1,000 residents won a money award. They are also peeved because the movie's success...
Such are the dangers of taking real life to the screen. Controversies over fact-based movies like The Hurricane, Boys Don't Cry and The Insider have got big ink in the past year, but Erin Brockovich's problems slid by almost unnoticed. Residents who received settlements back in 1996 were sworn to secrecy as part of the agreement, but now their sick neighbors are piping up. "I didn't want to go see the movie, but I did. Give me a break! What s___! They depicted the lawyers as so concerned about the residents," says Diane Zuniga, whose mother...