Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrates productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...
...without instances of whimsy. In William Hauptman's "Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is bound for glory. Nicholson Baker's "K. 590" presents a university string quartet attempting to practice Mozart in a hotel "refreshment room" while the landlady vacuums and a pair of teen-age girls ply a soda machine with quarters...
...land that separated two tributaries of the Amazon. It was a feat of autocracy and artistry, of engineering and enlightened madness-a readymade metaphor for Herzog's kind of film making. The movie would also be his first "big" production, with financial help from Coppola and with Jack Nicholson as the star...
...musical comedy be spawned from one of the trashiest, cheapest B movies ever made? The Little Shop of Horrors was shot in 1960 by Schlockmeister Roger Gorman on a frayed-shoestring budget (way under $100,000), using no-name actors (including a 23-year-old Jack Nicholson) on grungy sets left over from another picture. It was filmed in an impossible two days. But Screenwriter Charles B. Griffith extracted 70 minutes of fast, daft humor from his blending of the horror and science-fiction genres...
...George Nicholson, Dell's editor in chief of books for young readers, insists that despite the explicit, eye-catching themes in many of today's Y.A. titles, "we also have considerable respect for this audience. We want to have an uplifting, affirmative quality to books written for children." Adolescents cannot seem to get enough. To keep up with the demand, Dell is offering a $1,000 prize (plus $4,000 in advances) for the most outstanding first Y.A. novel...