Word: homeyness
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...provides him with full-force backing, surprisingly stronger in performance than on records: Lead Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and Rhythm Guitarist-and sometime vocalist -Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues, give McCartney a brawny underpinning of sound, while Joe English whacks away at the drums. Paul's homey wife Linda, 34, is there too, at his insistence. She is hardly a professional musician, but she inflicts no damage either. Linda pokes at keyboards, occasionally chiming in to provide some harmony...
...needed to draw strength from him. "The truth set us free," she says. "When I told him, he cried ... But a huge weight lifted because we could share it." Sneaking her new baby into the hospital under a poncho, Sandy nursed her by Mark's bedside. This homey act gave her husband a peaceful sense of the continuity of life, she explains. For the viewer, this serene prologue to the dying patients awakens a sense that lives and relationships are as important as death. Says Roemer: "I felt a good way to ease into the fears was to start...
...elderly, frail spinster Jane Marple who remained her favorite detective. Gifted with as many "little grey cells" as Poirot, Miss Marple also possesses an unpretentious village wisdom and homey psychological insight that make her Agatha Christie's alter ego. Although Poirot is gone, Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...
...idea whose time had come. Zangwill wrote a play about American immigrants and called it The Melting Pot. It ran for months on Broadway, and the phrase entered the language as an expression of faith in American homogeneity. That faith lasted until the 1960s, when blacks first challenged its homey apple-pie vision and prepared the way for a similar awakening among other ethnic groups...
...fiancée, whom he met more than two years ago. Though her modeling and acting careers have faded, the future bride still plans to make an album of love songs before easing into the role of housewife. "I believe that a girl has to be the homey sort to keep her man," says Twigs, who intends to dish up the eggs-and-chips in Rome, where Whitney will soon be making a movie. "He is a bit of a gypsy," she allows. "I would never let him be there by himself with all those fabulous Italian birds...