Word: helene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrative rolling.) PBS's version of the play, imported from England's Granada International Television for the Great Performances series, may well be the definitive production. Director Michael Apted has obtained a riveting ensemble performance from a dream cast: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. Though it is difficult to capture the physical tension of Pinter characters on a small television screen, Apted grips the audience with a judicious use of tight closeups, clever editing and proper attention to Pinter's pauses...
...really thought what we were writing was true," said Helen Davis, a Dartmouth co-ed who filled in as cheerleader when her best friend's pompom broke. "We gave up hope for the game weeks ago, and knew we'd have to cheat to have any chance of snapping our normally interminable losing streak," she added...
Though it sometimes galls the town fathers, Muncie, Ind. (pop. 83,000), is famous for being ordinary. In 1924, Sociologists Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd decided that Muncie was "the typical American city" that could reveal how small-town America had developed and where it was going. The Lynds trained themselves in anthropological methods and descended on Muncie as if it were a settlement of New Guinea headhunters. The result was two classic books, Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), that shrewdly foreshadowed the next two generations of American life...
McDaniel is survived by his second wife, the former Helen Stock...
...BEEN SAID by frustrated lovers and even meat hunters who break mirrors and fling frying pans in the morning, that men and women have been messing with each other's minds at least since Helen of Troy. And despite the computechnic heralding of this supercool Space Age of Sex, love and sex still bring on concommitant confusion, loathing, ambivalence and ugliness...