Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RAMSHACKLE HOTEL, beneath a tattered counterpane, a genius languishes. Rejected by Radcliffe at the age of 20 and by her family and friends at the age of 40. Mary McLane, and author who once published a scandalous memoir lies dying. Played by both a young and an old actress, she simultaneously cries out for affirmation of her past accomplishments and bleeds with the desire for future success...
...seemed exotic. His high profile, in all of its manifestations, rankled some straitlaced executive colleagues. Others simply wearied of his professional swagger. "When John was at General Motors, people either loved him or they hated him," says J. Patrick Wright, a business journalist who wrote De Lorean's 1979 memoir, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. According to the book, De Lorean's febrile management style, impolitic brilliance and impatience with bureaucracy worked against him. In a chapter called "How Moral Men Make Immoral Decisions," De Lorean makes much of his own ethics...
...issued uneventfully into the governance of Calvin Coolidge," writes Russell Baker in this beguiling memoir...
...from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years (1963), he became one of the first White House aides to report on the behind-the-scenes workings of an Administration...
DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap...