Word: opalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TITLE: SHOWDOWN AT OPAL CREEK...
...former friends and business partners, now passionate adversaries, wrangle publicly over whether the town is worth the last old trees. Tom Hirons, tough, honest and worn down, runs a small logging company that is starved for work. George Atiyeh is a cocky, down-home environmentalist. His obsession is protecting Opal Creek, a 6,800-acre stand of superb old growth in the western Cascade Mountains. Seideman, a TIME reporter, follows his two feuding guides, and the reader, tagging along, learns, among other things, why loggers tend to hit the bars after a week's work. Though the author...
...Isaacson says, "Henry Kissinger was very generous in the time and access he gave me. But it's not an authorized biography, and indeed it's quite critical in places." This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the spotted-owl environmental controversy in his | forthcoming book Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William A. Henry III recently published The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason. And away...
Dottie's rise to stardom and her mounting family problems come to a head when she is booked at a renowned comedy club in Los Angeles. Erica and Opal must stay behind in the care of Dottie's aspiring comedian friends. Meanwhile, Dottie begins to appear on national TV in interviews. As her stay in LA lengthens, her daughters see more of Dottie on TV than they do in real life...
Even a visit to their mother in Las Vegas cannot stem the girls' growing resentment and pain at their mother's absence. To add to the turmoil, Erica and Opal discover their mother's burgeoning relationship with "the Moss," the term they use to derisively refer to their mother's agent...