Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives quietly on Long Island with his wife and infant daughter, returning to Montreal during the offseason. Bossy makes a reported $185,000 a year, and will renegotiate into superstar salary status when his contract expires next year...
With good reason. Behind his boyish smile, Tyte is one of the crawliest characters in recent fiction. He specializes in making a mockery of privacy. "Make-belief is all we have," he tells another actor, a woman who plays the part of an infant murderer in a television play. Tyte's personal script usually starts with the story that he was orphaned when his parents were killed in a train crash. In truth, Mom and Pop are in a retirement home that Francis never visits. Having eased his way on sympathy, he plays it by ear and keeps...
GUERRILLA is a relative infant, terrible though it may be, on the campus political scene, and it thus has not had time to develop a dynamic of its own. It is still primarily responsive to such influences as the Assembly and immediate student concerns. Issues that have the potential of exciting or inspiring any sort of interest on campus are rare, and GUERRILLA has assumed part of the responsibility of insuring that those issues are resolved as they arise. Eventually, GUERRILLA will develop the initiative necessary to create issues and inflame passions, to move Harvard students...
Nevelson's account of her childhood and youth has the deliberate quality of fiction, simplified and pruned of inconvenient facts. She presents herself as an infant prodigy, continuously inspired, the servant of her gifts, every part of whose life, even loneliness, was an act of choice. She says she knew at five that she was going to be an artist, and by seven that her art would be sculpture. Art did give Nevelson a sense of security and a vocation. "From the first day in school to the day I graduated," she says, "everyone gave...
Everybody followed the action on radio-which everybody was talking about more and more. The infant NBC-Red Radio Network delivered Amos n' Andy into Dixon living rooms at 6 every weekday night. Radio was such a captivating novelty that even Reagan's maiden effort as sportscaster rated a review in the Davenport Democrat and Leader. He narrated-for $5-Iowa's loss to Minnesota, 21-6, before some 10,000 spectators who had paid $2 to $3 and got rained on. Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account...