Word: myra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...
...yesterday, the Med School Faculty Council, a 41-member body of junior and senior faculty members, approved the proposal by a unanimous voice vote, according to Myra B. Ramos, assistant to the dean for academic programs...
Many people in the Harvard community who knew Ivers also expressed deep regret over his death Myra A Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts at Radcliffe, commented that "while he was here he was really connected with a lot of students and we are all going to miss...
...strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over Jerry Lee's marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown. Women married young back in Ferriday, La., but this was no matter to Americans either. They joined in the censure; Jerry Lee's name slid to the bottom of the pop charts, and then below...
...until the late '60s, with a new record company and a heavier country inflection, did things brighten again. He became a big country star, but - as if he were enacting a cycle of celebrity and retribution - things fell apart again. He had lost Myra, remarried, and lost his new wife too. He was sometimes arrested now, and often suffered from alcoholic and pharmacological excess. He was frequently sued by ex-wives, former employees and miscellaneous creditors, and plagued on several occasions by liens from Internal Revenue. In 1981 he nearly died from a perforated stomach. Jerry Lee Lewis...