Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blonde, green-eyed Karen Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation at having to share his command with Harbor Pilot Jim Hurd, the curly-headed Alaskan in charge of maneuvering Anchorage through the narrows. With a tug's help we get under way. Thirty minutes out Hurd calls for a hard left turn, followed by mildly tricky navigation past a needle-shaped island named Middle Rock. The channel is close...
...brooding poet Robert Lowell is given a crayoned zigzag crown of laurels by Sidney Nolan (June 2, 1967), while Boris Artzybasheff painted a blue-faced underwater Jacques Cousteau (March 28, 1960). Among the other artists in the show: Pietro Annigoni, Bernard Buffet, René Bouché and Peter Hurd...
...witness a "liar," Nichol cited him for contempt; later he threw Defense Lawyers Mark Lane and William Kunstler in jail overnight for arguing with him. The prosecution annoyed the judge no less. Nichol accused the FBI of "arrogance" and "misconduct" and Chief U.S. Prosecutor R. (for Richard) D. Hurd of deceiving the court...
Despite occasional absurdities, the film is faithful to the spirit of small-town life. Bartlett lovingly chronicles the story of Ruby in her own setting: clam suppers, TV and sixpacks, high school teachers, neighbors. Ruth Hurd, who actually is a busdriver, plays Ruby. She gives a stunning performance as an aging woman determined not to be confined to her husband's chairside, yet ill at case elsewhere. Fixing herself a huge Ice Cream sundae and eating it as she watches the passersby from her porch, quietly slipping out by the back way after she has dressed...
Another resident agrees. Says Broker Edward A. Hurd Jr.: "If you come home full of problems-and I guess we all have this year with the stock market-it's like flying. When you get up there, everything seems sort of small, and the problems of the day disappear...