Word: lancasterism
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Unlike Henry Fonda or Burt Lancaster, Stewart did not have the luck to star in melancholy-twilight masterpieces; his final films were mostly amiable and mundane. He eased into late maturity with rueful good humor, telling director Peter Bogdanovich, "After 70 it's all patch, patch, patch." And he remained...
For some time Aaron had been beguiling his sophisticated New York City dinner guests with the story of how the widower Clyde courted the widow Gussie Lancaster, a childhood sweetheart who more than 60 years before had moved to California. Aaron, pressed by his wife, TV journalist Lesley Stahl (60...
BOOKS . . . THE BALLAD OF GUSSIE & CLYDE: Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter Aaron Latham has written the mother of all Father's day's presents with this spare, beguiling tale (Villard; 176 pages; $19.95) of how his widowed father Clyde courted the widow Gussie Lancaster, a childhood sweetheart who more than...
Peak development of quilt design by the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Amish
This godly plainness, the desire for which was embedded so deep in early American identity, runs through much folk art. It is in the fiercely conservative center-square and diamond-in-the-square Lancaster Amish quilts, with their magnificent sobriety of color--a soft, swaddling minimalism, America's first major...