Word: jamison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, have gained him entry into that literary purgatory where the praise is high but the royalties...
...William C. Jamison of Lubbock, Texas, a salesman with a financial-records firm, reckoned that Carter would get "a real feel for the country just by dropping in unannounced everywhere you go. This will enable you to see the country as it really is. Otherwise it will...
...occasion: the start of a two-week tribute to Composer Duke Ellington by the Alvin Ailey modern dance company. Ford, who once studied with Martha Graham, may have lost a few moves over the years, but obviously none of her enthusiasm. Backstage the First Lady partnered with Dancer Judith Jamison for a few smooth steps, then confided: "I still practice my ballet exercises in a large bathroom with a lot of mirrors when nobody is looking...
Standing together, they look like mismatched members of a computer dating service. But Judith Jamison of New York's Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Co. and Mikhail Baryshnikov, celebrated defector from Russia's Kirov Ballet, will be partners all right-as dancers rather than daters. Last week the couple showed off a few moves to promote a May 11 benefit pas de deux in behalf of the Ailey troupe and Boys Harbor, Inc., a New York charity for youngsters. And how will Jamison (5 ft. 10 in.) fare with the smaller (5 ft. 6 in.) premier danseur? "Misha...
Wilfrid Sheed is almost certainly the best American reviewer of books. He is also, as he has shown in Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, a novelist of wit and intelligence. When his prose has erred, it has always been on the side of elegance; he has never been known to write a bad or foolish line...