Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a thorough investigation of the battlefield is that until last August it was covered by two-foot-tall stands of buffalo grass. A careless smoker changed that, starting a fire that denuded the site. Since digging began two weeks ago, 550 artifacts, from an Army boot to several limb bones, have been unearthed...
...dreams. She trekked up into the Rockies near Cripple Creek, Colo., and wished-or "projected," as she puts it-that during the next year, the film she was making, Terms of Endearment, would win an Oscar, and so would she; that her book on spiritualism, Out on a Limb, would become a bestseller; that a revamped version of her nightclub act would score a hit on Broadway. Anything can look possible to a woman who once danced an entire ballet on a broken ankle. But that almost greedy welter of ambitions might have seemed outlandish if it had been voiced...
...50th birthday, Shirley MacLaine was in New York City, and she attended festivities all day long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater...
...flashes of mysticism. She followed this bestseller with You Can Get Therefrom Here (1975), a reflection on her political activities and her tour of China that struck some critics as naive; it sold less well. MacLaine's biggest success as an author is the 1983 Out on a Limb: 176,000 copies were printed in hard-cover and about 1.2 million in paperback. A TV network is negotiating for a mini-series in which she would star...
...acted more like an older brother than a sister. Beatty chuckles. Says he: "I'm not going to run with that ball." Of their common craft, Shirley says wistfully, "Maybe I wanted him to need me more than he did." Warren says of her book Out on a Limb: "My film Heaven Can Wait was sort of a precursor of what she wrote...