Word: mae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether they fit. That is turning out not to be the case...so far. Americans still seem reluctant to double-click themselves into six-figure financial commitments. Though prospective borrowers are happy enough to do their research by computer, just 21% of folks polled for the 1999 Fannie Mae National Housing Survey said they would definitely or probably try financing a new home over the Internet. That's an increase of only 1 percentage point over three years ago. This year, Forrester Research projects, the Internet will account for only 1.5%, or $19 billion, of new mortgage loans. --Megan Rutherford...
...movies had learned to talk and, with the help of Broadway-bred writers, did so in a sassy vernacular that singed sensitive ears. And the films were acted with a feral intelligence. James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck were street-level stars with insolent accents and attitudes. "There we were, like an uncensored movie," says Harlow of one tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just...
Clarke, who administers the Editorial Diversity Program at Time Inc., has written a novel that is all about change, but gradual change: the kind that transforms people's lives while they're preoccupied with the daily chores. This story of Johnnie Mae's eventual triumph--and of a city's grudging coming to terms with the hopes and dreams she typifies--flows quietly but carves deep channels in the reader's mind...
...river that runs through Breena Clarke's accomplished first novel, River, Cross My Heart (Little, Brown; 245 pages; $23), is the sluggish brown Potomac, benevolent on the surface but treacherous beneath. Along with other young African Americans from their Georgetown neighborhood, Johnnie Mae Bynum and her sister Clara are forced to use the river as a swimming hole owing to a race ban at their local pool. It's the 1920s, and the girls are part of a steady migration from the fields of the rural South to the streets of bustling Washington. Things are supposed to be better there...
DIED. CHARLES PIERCE, 72, flamboyant impersonator of Hollywood grandes dames; of cancer; in North Hollywood, Calif. Known for his campy--and catty--impressions of Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson and Mae West, Pierce played clubs throughout Europe and the U.S. for four decades...