Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although she said she will miss Winthrop House, Leape, now in her fourth year as senior tutor, said she wants to devote time to doing "some new things in the Office of Career Services...
Carter will sorely miss the intellectual stimulation of the White House and intends to invite people from around the country to visit him in Georgia. He has already started to prepare a list of names. He hopes to spend a couple of days a week in Atlanta, where an office is being prepared for him in the Federal Building...
...movements and dynamite film tricks. What he cannot do is write or direct convincing dialogue. Sophisticated actors tend to sound silly when they deliver his messages: in Scanners, Hero Stephen Lack is too hammy, Evil Genius Patrick McGoohan too wry. But pleas for Old Vic or New Hollywood performances miss the point. If Lack, McGoohan and Heroine Jennifer O'Neill act like mannequins in a punk boutique window, fine. At any moment-at least in a David Cronenberg movie-the figures could escape to the street, walk up to you and bump! aarrgh! sploooosh...
...beautiful, but she had a quirky presence that impressed Producer David 0. Selznick. He gave her the role of Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's neurasthenic maid, in his 1939 production of Gone With the Wind. As Atlanta burned, Butterfly gave haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With the Wind Museum...
...Writer Ray Bradbury, who never learned to drive, is one of the few million-dollar earners in Los Angeles who rides buses and bikes. He has no regrets. "It's like sex and a twelve-year-old," Bradbury shrugs. "You don't miss what you've never...