Word: myra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somewhere along the way, Vidal seems to have grown weary of his lonely stand against the barbarians. The more he castigated them, the more they praised and purchased his witty and iconoclastic novels. Myra Breckinridge (1968) was supposed to be a poke in the eye to smug notions of sexual identity; it became a bestseller instead. Julian (1964) and Burr (1973) insisted that true heroes of history are villains in the dull popular imagination; millions of people, including dullards, relished this insight. By this time, success dogged Vidal at every turn. If you cannot offend your enemies, why not take...
...Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic Tom Shales. Nonetheless, the paper's culture coverage is spotty and seems driven more by the tastes of particular Post writers than by the interests of the reader...
Monkey Eating Peach was originally the idea of director of the Office of the Arts Myra A. Mayman...
Scherick's "Winter Kiss," won funding because he had film experience--he was a production assistant for the film. "The Natural" --and because his film involved undergraduates, said Myra Maymen, director of the Office for the Arts...
...Myra Catherina Souby Houston...