Word: maven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like this. Last week she started out at a party for Matilda Cuomo's new book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People Who Need No Introduction hoping for some quality time with her. Hey, there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harry...
DIED. WILLIAM WOODWARD III, 54, member of a wealthy family best known for its morbid history; after plunging 14 stories from his apartment; in New York City. In 1955 his mother, a showgirl turned society maven, accidentally shot his father to death at their Long Island estate. In 1975, as Truman Capote was to publish a fictionalized account of Woodward Jr.'s death, she killed herself...
...keep on meandering into the '90s as the codgers plan one last adventure. Since the characters are in stir most of the time, the film doesn't move; it just ages. Murphy's real co-star here, as in Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, is makeup maven Rick Baker. The facial prostheses are funny and poignant. Unlike this life-long film...
...scholars, Lynn M. Festa and Ann Rowland, have expressed interest in gender studies, which Buell said he hopes will fill the void left by the departure of "queer studies" maven, Associate Professor of English Ann Pellegrini...
DIED. ROSE BLUMKIN, 104, Midwestern retailing maven who, as a non-English-speaking Russian immigrant, founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937 and fostered its growth into one of the nation's largest home-furnishings stores; in Omaha. Blumkin's aggressive marketing philosophy rested on underselling her competitors. Among her fans was Warren Buffett, who bought majority control of the Mart...