Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scaly, furry and feathered creatures speak for themselves in Turtle in July (Macmillan; $13.95). Marilyn Singer's liberated verses suggest bodily rhythms (Deer Mouse: "get enough to last/ get enough to store/ get more"; Beavers: "You guard/ I pack/ I dig/ You stack"; Dragonfly: "Look/ skim/ there/ snap/ eat/ Repeat"). Meanwhile, Jerry Pinkney's watercolors furnish the shades and tints of four seasons and 15 highly articulate animals...
Despite the departure of Bence Pharmacy from a building bought by Harvard last year, the University has not yet decided whether it will use the site for a dormitory of office space, Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, co-director of the Office for Government and Community Affairs, said yesterday...
Hall did not stay out of the talk-show ring for long. In 1986 he joined Marilyn McCoo as co-host of Solid Gold, a syndicated music show. Then he got a call from the Fox Network, asking him to be a last-minute replacement for Frank Zappa as fill-in host of The Late Show, which had just dumped Rivers, its original star. Hall's stint went so well that he was asked back twice the following week. Soon he was doing the program full time...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...
There was some oil found there, but it's being removed according to [Department of Environmental Protection] regulations," said Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, co-director of the Office for Government and Community Affairs. "There was speculation it was heating...