Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of California at Los Angeles. The presentation at U.C.L.A. looked like lunchtime at the studio commissary 40 years ago. On hand were Fred, 83, and Ginger, 70, Dee and husband, Joel McCrea, 76, Jane Russell, 61, Sam Jaffe, 91, Ralph Bellamy, 78, Rhonda Fleming, 58, Rudy Vallee, 80, Harriet Nelson, 67, Laraine Day, 61, and Jane Wyatt, 69. Another famous former RKO star couldn't make it but sent his best. He starred in Cattle Queen of Montana in 1954 and Tennessee's Partner in 1956 for the studio, but Ronald Reagan, 71, was busy playing...
...institutions to offer accounts that paid higher interest. All this was bad news for borrowers; since banks and savings and loans suddenly had to pay much more for deposits), they had to charge much more for loans. Those 8% mortgages and car loans became as outdated as Ozzie and Harriet...
...been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off the presses and speeding toward dealers: the complete poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-92), the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). They will soon be available in U.S. bookstores, at $25 apiece...
...somehow become selfsupporting? Answers are several years away. In the meantime, readers can watch Melville develop into the author of Moby Dick and observe Whitman tinkering with and expanding Leaves of Grass. All of Hawthorne's eerie, ambiguous short fiction can be tucked into a purse or briefcase. Harriet Beecher Stowe never looked better, nor did Uncle Tom's Cabin, the melodramatic novel that abetted a war. That is not a bad beginning for a publishing project resting on a slim but worthwhile hope: that the writers who helped define this nation can some day be given...
...Shea, Jr. gets involved in the same sort of shady dealing that did in Shea, Sr., and the violent crimes of the client return to haunt the lawyer. Through the convoluted plot, threads weave and re-weave until every action seems to touch every character, from poor Shea to Harriet Dawson, a sympathetic child-murderer. Fate hangs over everyone's life like the faith the protagonist constantly tries to deny...