Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although McMahon's novels have both been well-received and a third is on the way, he insists that his true profession remains science. "One can only really have one profession, one thing that one is known for. But that doesn't prevent one from having a powerful distraction," he says...
Serpentine. Tommy Thompson's new book about a daring criminal chameleon who stalks Asia in search of unsuspecting tourists, is the product of such a wedding. Thompson, best known for Blood and Money--a searching dissection of the bizarre sequence of Hill murders in Houston-does two things very well. He picks great subjects. You keep having to remind yourself that Serpentine is, after all, non-fiction. In fact, after reading a couple of Thompson's quasi-novels, one might accuse him of choosing topics that any garden-variety journalist could fish a bestseller out of. Grisly, morbid, sick, perverse...
DIED. Armi Ratia, 67, Finnish designer and the dynamo behind Marimekko, the internationally known fabric and fashion house; after a long illness; in Helsinki. In 1949 Ratia quit her advertising job to write a novel and help salvage her husband's threadbare oilcloth company. The novel never was written, but the firm with Ratia as president took shape in 1951 as Marimekko (translation: a little dress for Mary). Ratia's bold-hued, clear-figured prints and the functional clothes she cut from them became Finland's hottest export since the sauna...
What Mr. Grafstein has failed to realize is the fact that the musical is based on actual events that took place a few years ago in the small Texas town of Lagrange, about an hour's ride outside of Houston. The Chicken Ranch, as it was known to the local citizens, was closed due to the efforts or Marvin Zindler of Houston's Channel 13 Eyewitness News. He operated, and continues to operate, a consumer hotline, investigating complainsts called in by viewers. One such complaint was the existence of the Chicken Ranch. Mr. Zindler is famous for his incredibly theatrical...
...blond head of hair.) The Celtics had him hooked before he began his senior year at Indiana State; and the fans, between obscenities aimed at Wicks, talked of little else. While the Celtics had the most wretched year in their history, Bird dominated the Sporting News, leading his little-known Sycamores to the national college finals...