Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their candidate for Dartford, then a safe Labor seat in Kent. Being chosen as a sacrificial lamb is the classic way to begin a career in British politics, and Margaret eagerly accepted. In the 1950 election Margaret, then 24, was the youngest woman running for Parliament. She lost, but Kingsley Wood, then leader of the Tories on the Dartford Council, recalls that "we all knew she was something different. She worked tirelessly and had the knack of remembering everyone's name...
...Kingsley Field...
...most affecting in suggesting the child's agony. In a totally different vein, suicide, adultery and attempted murder become almost folksy episodes in Crimes of the Heart. Playwright Beth Henley spins out a web of relationships among three Mississippi sisters, and, though the actresses (Kathy Bates, Susan Kingsley and Lee Anne Fahey) are uniformly fine and the play a potential crowd pleaser, the tenor of the evening is mostly that of an afternoon TV soap...
Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Picture Palace, Paul Theroux ∙ Stories, Doris Lessing The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving