Word: palme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After jamming the remaining sweaters in boxes, dragging down the last bag of trash that had accumulated over the past year, I fled; I fled from the constant gray drizzle, the looming brick and threatening deadlines that define Harvard to the palm trees, cloudless skies and pink stucco that are La-La Land, Los Angeles, home. A compilation of luck and lack of planning landed me a job as a production assistant in the business Los Angeles is renowned for worldwide--the movie...
...front strip a few blocks away from the spot where Versace was shot twice in the head at point blank range. The FBI also reported that Cunanan, a 27-year-old gay prostitute suspected of killing his former gay lover and three other men, had been spotted in West Palm Beach area as early as three weeks ago. While Cunanan is the FBI's lead suspect, agency officials say they are not sure if he was sexually involved with Versace, reports TIME's Miami bureau chief Tammerlin Drummond. "Cunanan is known as a high-class prostitute...
Like the modern jazzmen who were his contemporaries, he helped define cool for postwar America. He had hoboed across the country as a teenager, got into movies taking anonymous horse falls and survived a setup drug bust (he described jail as "just like Palm Springs without the riffraff"). Stardom, he implied, was just another of life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy...
DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...
DIED. DENNIS JAMES, 79, ubiquitous master of ceremonies who was host of the first sports telecast and such game shows as Haggis Baggis; in Palm Springs, Calif. James established himself as an inventive entertainer and emcee at the wrestling ring, where he used his gimmicky "cracklebone," a rubber bone, to imitate the sound of bones crushing...