Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bird and Gretzky are each involved in a long-standing relationship with one woman. Gretzky's sweetheart Vickie Moss is a cabaret singer. Joey, the Oilers' clubhouse boy, is her younger brother. From a momentary marriage to a cheerleader, Bird has a seven-year-old daughter he sees in the summertime. His companion is a Kelly Girl secretary named Dinah Mattingly. Neither man is extravagant, though Gretzky likes to dress. No longer fazed by clothes, Bird plucked his MVP trophy in shirtsleeves from a crowd of tuxedoes. Both are adept at trading in the Ferraris and Trans Ams they...
...According to federal officials, the members of what was quickly dubbed the "pizza connection" had smuggled some 1,650 Ibs. of heroin, with an estimated street value of $1.65 billion, into the U.S during the past five years. The arrests, particularly those in the Midwest, shocked neighbors. Mary Moss, who owns the grain elevator across the street from Giuseppe Vitale's pizzeria in Paris, Ill., spoke well of his product. "He makes a marvelous pizza," she said. "He uses real bacon, not bacon bits...
...these come "sits" (in-person meetings with the customer) and the hallowed "closing" of the deal. This month the agency is holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson...
Surprisingly, a poet has proved most successful in breaking through the language barrier. Joseph Brodsky, 43, one of the finest Russian poets of his generation, has been rendered into English by such distinguished American colleagues as Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht and Howard Moss. Brodsky has even acted as his own translator for two of the poems included in his latest collection, A Part of Speech (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Currently a New York City resident, Brodsky has been covered with honors, prizes and fellowships, including a $208,000 Mac Arthur Foundation award in 1981. Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance...
...Moss Hart testified that the prayer of ev ery aspiring playwright was, "Please God, let Jed Harris do my play." Nevertheless, with playwrights from Ben Hecht to Thornton Wilder, he imposed marathon revisions and usually ended by demanding a co-author credit and half the royalties. When he directed Arthur Miller's The Crucible in 1953, he responded to an out-of-town audience's calls for the author by going onstage and taking...