Word: nelles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nell Krabacher lived happily with her husband in Anchorage throughout the spring and summer of 1986. Then came the fall. As the days grew shorter, her spirits darkened. The ex-aerobics instructor, then 30, began gorging on carbohydrates, became increasingly lethargic, and would burst into tears for no apparent reason. By November, when daylight lasted only seven hours, Krabacher had gained 20 lbs. "There were some days," she recalls, "when all I could do was get out of bed and get on the couch and stare until the sun came up." Miserable and panicked, Krabacher fled to her former home...
...classic. Martin Hehman of the Drake Hotel in Chicago cites maturity: "As you get older you don't drink all night, so you want a drink that lets you know you had a drink." Then there is the aesthetic appeal of cold, clear liquid in a crystal cone. At Nell's, a New York club, Aspiring Actress Sally Carruthers wears a flared crinoline mini to match her martini glass. "Tip me upside down and . . . well, the same silhouette," she giggles...
...such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare as a Woollcott first - edition?", Parker replied deadpan, "A second edition." Presumably it was the memory of such moments that prompted Woollcott to term her "so odd a combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth...
...such results can be steep. Reading Game generally teaches pupils for 48 hours, costing a total of about $1,000. Sylvan recommends 36-hour blocks ($900); Huntington averages roughly 120 hours ($2,600). Says Nell P. Eurich, a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and an expert on remedial training: "My only concern is that so few people can afford this type of program." Yet there has been no shortage of applicants to the centers ever since Reading Game Founder and President Kenneth Martyn opened his first one in Huntington Beach 16 years ago. Martyn...