Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning seminars in the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, panelists mulled over such perennial problems as censorship and whether fiction will survive. The murmur of opinions was regularly punctuated by that strange modern cacophony, the sudden chorus of digital wristwatch alarms. From the audience, Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American...
...State of Washington pays Helen Castrilli, a secretary at its largest mental hospital, $1,300 a month. But studies conducted by a consulting firm hired by the state calculated that her work is "worth" the same as the work of those in different jobs making $350 a month more. When Castrilli and eight other workers sued, claiming sex discrimination, a federal-court judge in Tacoma decided in their favor. That ruling is now being appealed by state officials, with the Reagan Administration considering joining in the case against Castrilli and her coworkers. The dispute is the latest battle over...
...began writing her warm, human novel about life in a small Ohio town as a response to Sinclair Lewis' acerbic Main Street. That was in the late 1920s. But for Helen Hooven Santmyer, 88, the 1982 publication by Ohio State University Press of her 1,344-page opus, . . . And the Ladies of the Club, was only the first chapter in a success story. Last week G.P. Putnam's Sons announced plans to reprint 50,000 hardback copies of her novel by August, and the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it as a main selection. Meanwhile Santmyer...
...Helen M. Cardan Lakeport, Calif...
...actresses who have played Amanda, from Laurette Taylor to Gertrude Lawrence to Helen Hayes, Shirley Booth, Maureen Stapleton and Katharine Hepburn, none brings more impressive credentials to the role than Jessica Tandy. In 1947, she was the first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some...