Word: obit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caused by a strange reaction to a prescription painkiller called Equagesic. At that point, he had starred in only three released movies, one of which was unwatchably bad, the other two of which were watchably bad. Although he was a popular movie star in Asia, his New York Times obit ran only eight sentences, one of which read "Vincent Canby, the film critic of the New York Times, said that movies like Fists of Fury make 'the worst Italian western look like the most solemn and noble achievements of the early Soviet Cinema...
...when it's not, honesty is frequently not the best policy, and people with choices almost always make the wrong one. The play opens with two characters in a hospital waiting room. Alice, who works in a strip club, has been hit by a cab, and Dan, a newspaper obit writer, has come to her rescue. The action never seems to leave the trauma ward as the two pair up with each other and, eventually, with Larry, a straitlaced doctor, and Anna, a stylish photographer...
...Times giving sports junkies a morning fix of his laugh-a-line musings. One of four sports writers to score a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Murray greeted his award with characteristic humor: "This is going to make it a little easier on the guy who writes my obit...
...Hope, of course, wasn't dead at all but having breakfast at home in California. His daughter Linda confirmed this when the embarrassed Armey and Stump called to apologize. And the staffer who took the obit at its word? "It got handed straight to Armey, and that doesn't normally happen," Michelle Davis of Armey's press office admitted to TIME Daily. "It wasn't someone who regularly deals with the press." And would this person now be an ex- staffer? "Not at all," said Davis. "That's ridiculous...
...also serves up the cheeky Winners & Losers box in Chronicles.) His rambunctious sensibility, says senior editor Bruce Handy, "prevents Milestones from becoming gloomy or sterile. These are rich lives, and he's able to evoke them in a flash." For a sample, just look at Quinn's obit of Orville Redenbacher, America's prince of popcorn, in this week's section...