Word: fey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch setup proved charming in her early books but has worn a little thin, as Grimes seems to recognize...
DIED. Estelle Winwood, 101, fey, indefatigable slip of a British character actress who in an eight-decade career appeared on Broadway in some 40 plays, especially those of G.B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, and a score of movies, including The Glass Slipper (1955) and Murder by Death (1976); in Los Angeles...
...point, even does a passable imitation of himself. If his Romeo is perhaps too much a modern teenager, or his Macbeth more empurpled than it should be, there is illuminating humor in his rendering of Hamlet's advice to the players in the manner of a rather fey modern director giving notes to his company...
Only now and then does one catch a handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife...
Once upon a time in a glittery kingdom called Tinseltown, a fey and clever actress dreamed of producing her very own fairy tales. She would get all of her famous friends to appear and pay them beans, though not magical ones. But the mighty wizards and warlocks of Tinseltown scoffed. "Ha!" they cackled, "She'll be eaten alive...