Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films were shown, starting with The White Cliffs of Dover (made when she was twelve), finishing with Between Friends (made...
...Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies...
...Long on Lonely Street, a zesty, poignant and fiercely funny comedy. Far more shocking revelations have already emerged along the way, on matters ranging from race to motherhood to incest. Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers as scandalous, is the most impressive playwriting debut of the New York season...
...chair was endowed in 1985, with a gift of more than $1.25 million from Boston businessman George C. Reisman. Very little is known about the donor, said Med School spokesman Lillian F. Blacker. "He has remained very shy of public attention," she said...
...fury of a victim can exceed his skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from...