Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting French jeans and outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved fellow "crazies" in a bulky ledger. Mix the two together and what do you get? Creme de la Outrageous!, of course...
...Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black eye...
...want to keep the myth alive," Greta Garbo once said when asked about her reclusiveness. Garbo made her last film, Two-Faced Woman, in 1941 and has stayed out of the public eye ever since. But when Freelance Journalist Frederick Sands requested an interview for the German weekly Bunte Illustrierte, Garbo unexpectedly agreed. As they walked around Garbo's apartment in Klosters, Switzerland, the star, 71, admitted: "I'm restless everywhere and can't stay put. I would like to live differently somewhere, if only I knew where I could go." On daily walks, she says...
...Cotton Club and cast her in As Thousands Cheer. A tremendous hit, she went on to the dramatic roles she preferred, including that of Berenice Sadie Brown, the compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding. In 1951 she published His Eye Is on the Sparrow, a frank, resentful, sordid account of her life and religiosity ("The Catholic religion gives you a beautiful image to cuddle"). Rededicating herself to Christ, she sang regularly for Evangelist Billy Graham's crusades during the '60s. Although Waters made millions during her career...
...followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...