Word: holt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seniors in the Iota Chapter are: Phoebe A. Cushman; Leemore S. Dafny; Francesca B. Delbanco; Sadhana Dhruvakumar; Tanya L. Fenmore; Joan C. Han; Nadia A. Herman; Natalie F. Holt...
...drama was familiar, and so, tragically, was its conclusion. Three days before Susan Smith reported her children abducted, 24-year-old Pauline Zile told police that while she and her daughter Christina Holt were at the Swap Shop flea market just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the seven-year-old had disappeared from a stall in the ladies' room. For five days, Zile played the terrified mother on television, weeping and running her fingers through the hair of one of her daughter's dolls. A massive hunt for the little girl commenced...
...want to be the Speaker. I want to be the listener." And while he respectfully and boyishly refers to the Speaker as "Mr. Foley," his hard-edged campaign ads paint the incumbent as the symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. As Nethercutt spokesman Terry Holt puts it, "Foley is running against a political environment...
...film opens with Wyatt Earp, played with cool reassurance by Henry Fonda, and Earp's three brothers driving their cattle west to California. In search of "a shave and a beer," Wyatt and his brothers Virgil (Tim Holt) and Morgan (Ward Bond) head into the town of Tombstone leaving young James (Don Garner) behind to watch the cattle. When Wyatt takes it upon himself to subdue a drunk Indian so that he can get his shave in peace, he begs the question, "What kind of a town is this?" Immediately, he is offered the position of town marshall, but turns...
...Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero's fleshy predicament...