Word: larking
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...bridge at 110. She no longer travels solo to visit kin in Omaha, Neb., and San Diego, as she did at 100, and she relies on a cane to take steps, but Johnston can still hear fairly well, and she loves listening to books on tape. (Now it's Lark Rise to Candleford, about life at the end of the 19th century--a period otherwise known as her childhood...
...harder work than Allen anticipated. "I thought it was going to be sort of a lark, and a kind of genre, and easy, and it was one of the most difficult performances I've ever done," Allen says, "because of the confusion, because of the feelings that she's feeling but maybe she's not showing because she's a person in the CIA. I found it much more layered than I had ever imagined it." She also had to talk herself into being authoritarian. "I had to bolster myself to believe I knew what...
Steve Miller Band. I bought their first album in the basement record department of the JJ Newberry's in Plymouth, New Hampshire. I'm not sure why. It could have been a lark, or it could have been the cover, one of the first of the psychedelic era, and I was fifteen. The five-man Steve Miller Band, with Moby Grape are still the only Hashbury era rock bands I can tolerate over repeated listenings. Miller broke up that band, in favor of a trio, at the musical instant when trios went totally out of fashion. He rode back into...
Steve Miller Band. I bought their first album in the basement record department of the JJ Newberry's in Plymouth, New Hampshire. I'm not sure why. It could have been a lark, or it could have been the cover, one of the first of the psychedelic era, and I was fifteen. The five-man Steve Miller Band, with Moby Grape are still the only Hashbury era rock bands I can tolerate over repeated listenings. Miller broke up that band, in favor of a trio, at the musical instant when trios went totally out of fashion. He rode back into...
DIED. FRANCES DEE, 96, smart, lustrous star of Hollywood's golden age; in Norwalk, Conn. As a lark, after the University of Chicago, she took a bit part in movies and graduated to co-starring roles in such films as An American Tragedy, Little Women and I Walked with a Zombie. Equally impressive by Hollywood standards, she sustained a 57-year marriage to actor Joel McCrea...