Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reginald Fischer, both area residents. Driving abreast was Truck Driver David Pace, hauling a load of empty beer bottles to Hartford and accompanied in the cab by his wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep...
William Greider, who wrote the famous David Stockman interview for the Atlantic, warned, "I think we'll be shocked in future years when we learn more about the decision making in this Administration." Helen Thomas, that dogged veteran reporter for United Press International, argued, "The people around Reagan have got him in a cocoon. They feed us just enough to keep us busy." Andrea Mitchell of NBC Nightly TNews added, "I schlepped all the way out to Billings, Mont., for a picture of Reagan in a stagecoach and was never given a chance to ask him a question...
...comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major repertory companies are concentrating their energies on the Bard and other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren and Jonathan Hyde. The National Theater, the slicker and more conventional of the rep houses, is presenting Sheridan's The Rivals, with sumptuous scenery by John Gunter, all of it devoured by a cast that includes Michael Hordern and Tim Curry. Also at the National: Eduardo de Filippo...
Most of Robinson's stage characters have little in common with his real-life persons, says the actor, pointing, for example, to his most recent role as Helen Highwater, the brash hooker of this year's Pudding show, "Of Mines and Men." He explains how he developed the Highwater character: "I decided that my girlfriend's roommate best suited Helen. She's a pretty brazen, brash, real tough mama--if you'll excuse my French. I clued her in later, but she would catch me staring at her when I was visiting and she'd say, 'What are you doing...
...limited number of the most brilliant young men that can be found." These junior fellows would exchange ideas under the guidance of eminent scholars, called senior fellows, without the restrictions of graduate school or the formal dictates of a Ph.D. program. Among the eleven current senior fellows: Poet Helen Vendler, Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky and Derek Bok, the university's president...