Word: plimpton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody of Truman Capote's long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker...
Senior class fund-raising volunteers celebrated the opening of the senior class gift drive last night with a catered dinner at the Kennedy School, and a speech from journalist George A. Plimpton...
...Plimpton told the assembled seniors, who were sipping white wine and liqueur, to pledge an "extraordinary gift" of a billion dollars--"there's no way for them to collect...
...Believe it or not, George Plimpton once played goalie for the Bruins in an exhibition game against the Flyers. Whose penalty shot did he stop...
Sports! Photographs by Neil Leifer; text by George Plimpton; foreword by Red Smith (Abrams; 192 pages; $29.95). As a top photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Neil Leifer sat in the catbird seat through nearly two decades of Olympic Games, World Series, Kentucky Derbys, heavyweight championship fights. So there is much in this huge, flawlessly reproduced collection that is born of the right time and the right place. But Leifer also sat on teetering ladders, leaned out of helicopters, strapped himself or his cameras along rails on the homestretch, or under ski jumps. Searching for the special angle, he found a special...