Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center Honors gala had the sort of black-tie, stretch-limo elegance that faintly evoked eras past, when the honorees hit their professional strides. Receiving this year's ribbon and gold-plated medallions was an illustrious quintet of long-lived achievers: Director-Writer-Producer George Abbott, 95; Actress Lillian Gish, 86; Bandleader Benny Goodman, 73; Dancer-Choreographer Gene Kelly, 70; and Conductor Eugene Ormandy, 83. Top-banana stripes went to First Trouper Ronald Reagan, 71. Warmly addressing each of the honorees, he came to Abbott, who is currently reviving his 1936 Broadway show On Your Toes, and addressed...
...slights and suggested injuries. But this feud also disintegrated in conciliatory mutters and a handshake. So it goes too often. Even the Hatfields and the McCoys are said to be on cordial terms these days. Who knows but that in the dank, unhealthy future lies the collective rapprochement of Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer-all hugging wildly or nodding demurely in disgusting displays of propriety? One can hardly rely on anything...
...filming of a disaster movie called Firestarter. With labor costs skyrocketing, it is cheaper to burn an existing structure than to build a set. But the Hollywood arsonists had not counted on a having their job made so easy. "Everybody has dollar signs in their eyes," says Lillian Gates, a Grand Rapids Realtor. There are even people so desperate to sell that they are willing to see their homes go up in flames. One woman owner of a colonial manse in Holland, 25 miles west of Grand Rapids, plans to build a new home if her offer is accepted, explaining...
...Lillian Belts Rochester, Minn...
...maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more than doubled in the past three years in great part because, as Lillian Tomek of Bloomingdale's says, "women demand the same kind of quality that they have been wearing. Maternity was always budget. Ten years ago, you couldn't get anything but polyester. Today women want natural fabrics...