Word: missed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed west. His wife and baby son Michael followed in his slipstream. In his first film, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Barbara Stanwyck was indifferent to her co-star for several weeks. One morning her manner changed: "She said, 'Hey, you're pretty good.' I said, 'Too late, Miss Stanwyck...
...Mosca's. August is vacation month, so delegates will alas miss a sui generis Creole-Italian cuisine in a no-frills roadhouse about 30 minutes from the French Quarter. Classics include cracked crab marinated in Italian vegetable pickles; oysters baked with garlic, parsley and bread crumbs; barbecued shrimp heady with rosemary; hand-rolled spaghetti with butter, olive oil and garlic; and homemade fennel-sweet Italian sausage...
DeLillo's hypothesis about the Kennedy assassination is similar. American intelligence officers, frustrated by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Kennedy's diplomatic reconciliation with Castro, hoped to force Kennedy's hand. They planned to stage an attempt on Kennedy's life, a near miss. They would plant clues that would point back to Havana. Kennedy would be likely to believe a link to Cuba, because Kennedy had secretly ordered the C.I.A. to consider and research the assassination of Castro. If the plan succeeded, President Kennedy would be tricked into renewing hostilities with Cuba. Somewhere along the line, of course...
...bright and attractive teenager (she was Miss Black Tennessee of 1971), Oprah began her TV career as a reporter and anchor for the CBS affiliate in Nashville while she was still a student at Tennessee State. Later, at Baltimore's WJZ-TV, the TV imagemakers went to work. A botched attempt at a permanent caused all her hair to fall out temporarily. More important, her inexperience led to her being dumped as anchorwoman. "I was 22 years old," she says. "I had no business anchoring the news in a major market." She was given another chance, as co-host...
...Bianca has a lot of her father's features," Sherri says. No photographs of the man are around the house. Sherri never lived with him. Bianca saw him only occasionally before he became ill and died when she was not yet four years old. "You don't miss what you don't know," says Sherri, dismissing any relevance to Bianca's life. Recently, Bianca was asked for her father's name in a school workbook. She wrote in Leonard's name...