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DIED. Marion Tanner, ninetyish, quirky, colorful, real-life model for the heroine of the Broadway musical Mame, which was based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame, written by her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III under the pen name Patrick Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman...
Then a break. Shalnev asked for the President's autograph. He lent Reagan his pen. The other four lined up for the same, and Reagan scratched out his signature with a wry smile...
...crowd cheered. Behind the stage in what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential seal to make the place seem properly official. A tiny pen holder shaped like a Sara Lee truck cheeerily waved the bakery's banner. Reagan entered, the door closed, the men who run the U.S. huddled...
What better locale for high-speed writing on the symbol-strewn walls of modern culture than in a cheese shop in Paris? Calvino enters wielding pen like bludgeon or scalpel, a bull in a cheese shop, breaking all the codes. He leaves the Reader with a picture of Mr. Palomar, balancing notebook on knee, pen on paper, scribbling down names, sizes, colors, mold formations, as if his frantic doodling could create another map of the stars, a gastronomy of everyday life. Mr. Palomar does take on a persona, and at the same time becomes a recognizable character, when he sonic...
...single-minded writer, Strindberg's interests were strangely diverse. In addition to being the most prolific of authors--throwing his pages to the floor as fast as they flowed from his pen--he was a painter of considerable skill. Before he came to the theater, by way of walk-on parts at the Royal Theater of Stockholm, he studied medicine. Dabbling in alchemy, he attempted to produce gold by mixing copper and iron sulfate. Languages enchanted him. He applied himself to Chinese and Japanese, and although he remained violently anti-Semitic, he decided in middle age to learn Hebrew...