Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonderful challenge and opportunity forDr. Rowe," said Lillian F. Blacker, director ofthe medical area news office. "He was veryeffective as an administrator, as a researcher,and as a clinician. He'll be sorely missed...
Most of their companies are still relatively small, but some have grown into sizable corporations. Among the largest: Liz Claiborne (1987 revenues: $1 billion), the New York City fashion conglomerate built on Designer Claiborne's clothing for working women; Lillian Vernon (fiscal 1988 sales: $126 million), a mail-order gift company based in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and founded by Lillian Katz; and ASK Computer Systems (1987 sales: $125 million), a California software manufacturer started by Sandra Kurtzig...
Last year, a student production of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic featured a white student in the role of Henry, a white woman's Black lover. "I couldn't find a Black actor," the play's director explained at the time...
...other end of the scale of seriousness are two works notable for their sheer larkish effrontery. In George Baxt's The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case (St. Martin's Press; 228 pages; $15.95), the ferocious actress is joined by such other real-life viragoes as Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman. Baxt's comic turn mingles the actual and the imaginary like a pun-obsessed spin-off of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and has a similarly political bent. Set in 1952, it sketches deft parallels between the paranoia induced by a serial killer and the mania generated by McCarthy-era blacklisting...
...BEEN ages since I last saw you," I said to the figures on the screen at the opening moments of The Whales of August. The actors were all familiar, but from bygone eras. The last film I had seen starring Lillian Gish was made before the advent of talking pictures, and Bette Davis's heyday passed long before I was born. Although I had seen Vincent Price regularly as the host of PBS's Mystery, he too had faded from the movie screen...