Word: orphaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kurtzman for sure. For Maus specifically, I'd say Little Orphan Annie was really important, because of the kind of totemic quality of the drawings, the fact that... you can look deep into the blank eyes, find a sheet of paper and project an expression onto them. And that was kind of a part... of drawing Maus, having these kind of blank Maus heads to project onto...
...been obsessed with CinemaScope since I saw The Robe at the Roxy in 1953." (Cape Fear is his first wide-screen film.) In the '70s he was one of several directors asked by a film magazine for a list of old movies that might be designated as "guilty pleasures" -- orphan films he loved. Everyone else chose 10; Scorsese came up with 125, and he wasn't even winded...
...writing is brisk and funny where it is not tragic, though a bit heavy on "yikes" (as in, "For every human being on earth, there are 1,500 lbs. of termites. Yikes!"). It was Little Orphan Annie who said, "Yikes." Maybe Owen could alternate a few "arffs" in his next book, for Sandy...
...with Archibald MacLeish, and then of a long depressed period, when he lived alone in New York City, subsisting on three-day-old bread, reading Rilke in the New York Public Library. "I thought I would end as a sort of bag lady," he says. "I lived like an orphan. I said, 'I am fatherless.' " After a stretch at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he married Carol McLean, a writer he had met at Harvard. (They were divorced in 1979, and he is now married to Ruth Ray, a Jungian analyst...
...instead on the sweetheart nature of the deal. Says Oregon Congressman Ron Wyden: "I don't know of any other instance when the Federal Government has given any one drug company exclusive control over a species." The monopoly extends to marketing as well, since taxol is covered by an orphan-drug law that gives one company the right to sell the product...