Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with happiness. A handsome, vibrant woman of 41, with crisp, coppery curls, ruddy cheeks, shy blue eyes and a winning smile, she exuded sweetness and candor. She seemed pleased by her celebrity--and by the $1.5 million she earned from her first book of memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend. Well-wishers kept the house she rented in Princeton, N.J., filled with flowers. Fan letters, presents, even proposals of marriage arrived. Academic and society people lionized her. Amid such warm attention, she did not appear to worry unduly about her children in Moscow. Joseph, 22, and Yekaterina ("Katya"), 17, were...
...least one of Shinagel's colleagues is less certain. When Shinagel said that when he told a psychiatrist friend of his appointment, "he put his hands on my shoulders, and said, 'that's too bad, you'll have to come see me professionally after you start...
...winter have conspired once again to bring the plight of the Cambodians to Western attention. Here at home, a new movie. "The Killing Fields," tells the harrowing story of the friendship between New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, who was separated from his friend when the country fell in 1975 and who through his wits and luck survived through the three bloody years of Khmer Rouge rule that ensued...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked by a $10 bill?") Bronson Pinchot, currently winning acclaim for his bit as a swishy art-gallery assistant in Beverly Hills Cop, brightens...
...political bug bit Baker in 1970 when a country-club friend named George Bush, then a Republican Congressman, asked him to work on his Senate campaign. Grieving over the death of his first wife that year, Baker was eager to try something new, so he accepted Bush's offer to run the Harris County campaign. Bush lost, but Baker proved to be a talented tactician, delivering 61% of the votes cast in the county, which includes Houston. Baker would say later that the campaign made him "absolutely, totally, pure Republican." He went on to work on President Nixon...