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...Mick Countee sensed the emptiness because after he broke his neck in a diving accident, while he was a Harvard student, his mother told him, "Son, if Franklin Roosevelt could be President, you can finish your education." Countee, a black, not only finished but also went on to get a law degree from Georgetown and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "Not a day went by," he said last week, "that I did not think of Roosevelt and Roy Campanella." Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher who was paralyzed in a car accident but never despaired in public...
...exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most for his gyrating performances as bass guitarist and lead singer in a rock band called the Ugly Rumours. With his full mouth and toothy grin, Blair looked a bit like Mick Jagger and managed a passable rendition of Honky Tonk Woman. On Sundays, however, he attended services in the chapel and became a committed Christian...
MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has man tamper in God?s domain, by daring to build a subway in L.A. "The script," Corliss notes, "thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s...
...happy week for rockers who are married to blond bombshells. After just two weeks of separation, PAMELA and TOMMY LEE are back together, perhaps inspired by their transatlantic cousins Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, who have also reportedly reunited. "All the ridiculous speculations on our marriage are false," says Lee, ignoring the fact that his wife's divorce petition was what caused the speculation in the first place. "I'm in recovery for alcohol abuse, and my wife is supporting me through a very tough time...
...celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes the subject is reduced to a characteristic single attribute (Sandra Bernhard's mouth, Cher's rear 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...