Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, a study of the Royal Governor of Massachusetts on the eve of the American Revolution; in philosophy, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, a disquisition upon just how and why that government is best which governs least. In poetry, Marilyn Hacker's Presentation Piece; in biography, Richard B. Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson; in children's books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science and translation offered a contrast between trouble...
...Ernest Hemingway (1961) and Marilyn Monroe...
Anyway, they try everything to cure Tommy. He visits Eric Clapton the faith healer in a Marilyn Monroe worshipping ceremony peopled by a company of badly crippled and visibly retarded hopefuls who Russell must have gone to some trouble to procure for the cinematic effect. Later Tommy is left to devices of the Acid Queen (Tina Turner is a marvelous caricature, snake-tongued and screeching--the best thing in the show), and a 'psychedelic' scene full of neons and visual tricks that experimental filmmakers have been using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused...
...were plenty of those. Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, was a show-business small-timer in Los Angeles, a sometime model and actress in commercials. Her biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty, constant...
...Marilyn Taylor of Ramsey, N.J., watches with trepidation when twelve-year-old Bobby skates into the corner, endangering the family's $1,600 investment in orthodontia. "It's not easy to be a hockey mother," she says. "Sometimes we have to get up at 3 in the morning to make a game. But it's never any problem. I just go to his room and say 'Hockey,' and my boy is right...