Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have encountered problems with language--at times we have had difficulty saying exactly what we wanted to say or even speaking at all. Moments like these make us painfully aware of the limitations of language, of our language. We realize that speech is a labor of love, an effort to obliterate the spaces and experiences that block our understanding of one another, render them irrelevant in some human communion. Paradoxically, these failings of language and speech connect us--our blighted attempts become a universal tie in the human experience...
When her first TV series debuted on Oct. 15, 1951, there was no way to tell that Lucille Ball was beginning an apparently immortal love affair with the American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout legs, but she was also nearly 40 and a veteran of almost two decades in the supporting ranks of show business. She had been a movie actress but hardly a superstar; she had enjoyed moderate success in radio but had only fleeting experience in the new medium of video...
...Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than 80 countries and in perpetual reruns in the U.S., has a cumulative audience in the tens of billions...
...slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone bad. I'm Your Girl is a love song, all right, but it is about Snow's mother Lili, who died of cancer...
...Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Melinda J. McAdams, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Judy Sandra, Elyse Segelken, Michael Skinner, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...