Word: greenburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greenburg and Holmes each took their matches, and Freeman escaped with an exciting...
...sure, there are large and hairy losers in this chrestomathy. Truman Capote's A Day's Work is a smirk posing as an empathic look at a cleaning lady; Marshall Brickman's pastiche The Analytic Napkin is road company Woody Allen; Dan Greenburg's How to Be a Jewish Mother has aged so rapidly that it makes the paper beneath it look brown. But almost everything else functions well in Richler's idiosyncratic, exuberant and welcome volume. What does not work is a steady insistence that humorists are a devalued species. In fact they enjoy...
These alone would make Heartburn a useful anthology of insults. But Ephron has another purpose. It is no secret that her marriages were more the stuff of Congreve than Cosmo. The first, to Comedy Writer Dan Greenburg (How to Be a Jewish Mother), ended in 1973. The second, to Journalist Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men), was finished shortly after the birth of their second son. Bernstein's association with an ambassador's wife had been Topic A at Washington parties. When Ephron discovered the liaison, she headed back to New York City and retribution...
Angeles has marketed more than 10 million pairs of its Goodties in just ten months. Says Goodtimes President Robert Greenburg: "Kids can't afford to buy new shoes as often as before, so they dress up their old ones with a new pair of laces...