Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents slowly die; she has married a boy who turned out to be a homosexual, and a suicidal one at that; she has tried to fight death with what she thinks to be its antithesis, love; and she has loved just about every available male in the town of Laurel. An affair with a seventeen-year-old boy caused her expulsion from the town and her trip to New Orleans to visit her sister and brother-in-law, the Kowalskis. After her first meeting with Stanley, her imaginery world of gentility (a world like that of the mother...
Tisch got into the hotel business when his father, a New York manufacturer of boys' clothing, gave him $125,000 to invest after he had graduated from New York University (at 18) and spent three years in the Army. He bought the drowsy Laurel-in-the-Pines resort hotel in Lakewood, N.J. with a partner, attracted guests by refurbishing it and using promotion stunts (one: importing three reindeer from Finland). He made so much money the first year that he bought out his partner...
Desirable Mates. First Mitchell and Martin read from a photostat of a statement that they had left behind in a Laurel, Md. safe-deposit box-a maneuver designed to prove that they had made up their minds well out of reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the Soviet Union." said the two, because they had learned that the U.S. lies, because its secret agents spy on both hostile and friendly powers, because its international operatives manipulate money and military supplies in an effort to overthrow unfriendly governments...
...embarrassment that it caused the U.S., the Moscow sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...
...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...