Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HARVARD WOMEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT CO-CAPTAIN Colleen Griffith...
While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./He lets me extend help to a stranger./My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./If and when I let you touch the butt...
...While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./ He lets me extend help to a stranger./ My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./ I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./ So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./ If and when I let you touch the butt...
...Marie Smith was five when her father died; she revered his memory and refashioned it in dozens of movies about kids grieving for their sainted dead dads. To earn money Mary, Jack and Lottie went onstage. Soon they were in New York City, where, at 17, Mary strode into Griffith's Biograph studio and got a film...
...Pickford was the prototype star. She had a stage mother who was her closest and only adviser (Mary faced the moneymen without an agent or manager). Though she never took director's credit, she supervised every aspect of production. When she founded United Artists with Fairbanks, Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, Pickford was the one with the canniest business sense. Later she had plastic surgery, three fraught marriages, a substance-abuse problem (alcohol) and two show-biz siblings, Jack and Lottie, with a talent for scandal. Instead of ensuring iconic immortality by dying young, Mary outlived her fame, ending...