Word: marilyns
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...alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. In the intervening years Grunwald, now 74, learned English, met Marilyn Monroe and scores of Presidents and Prime Ministers (in roughly that order of importance), became the editor of TIME magazine and then editor-in-chief of its parent company and thus one of the most powerful people in American journalism. His memoir (Doubleday; 658 pages; $30) is "an often eloquent and emotional...
...view) that is key to their media image. In other pictures, Ritts' gaze shifts to a different aspect of the person. A portrait of Mick Jagger shows only his bony chest covered by a pair of satin overalls with "Mick" spelled out in rhinestones. Cindy Crawford is disguised as Marilyn Monroe in a blond wig. One whimsical portrait has an old, wrinkled Milton Berle in a granny cap. But the subjects don't just play parts; they also express themselves. One often gets a sense that a photo was part of a dialogue between Ritts and his models. They seem...
BORN: Oct. 29, 1941, Delhi EDUCATION: Louisiana Tech U, B.S., 1963, M.S. 1971; Northeast Louisiana U, Ed.D. 1977 FAMILY: Wife, Marilyn; three children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor POLITICAL CAREER: Louisiana House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2253, Monroe...
...book in question, which arrived in stores last week, is American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth, a TIME correspondent who covered the trial. Schiller is a colorful operator whose exploits include photographing Marilyn Monroe in the nude and providing Norman Mailer with the reporting about Gary Gilmore for The Executioner's Song. Schiller was the one who created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct...
Forty-six women and 39 men campaigned in last week's preliminary elections, with 780 seniors, or 41 percent of the Class of 1997, casting ballots, said Marilyn Scott, a staff assistant at Wadsworth House for classes and reunions...