Word: plum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that are not attached to her name, like The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. When she begins Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, a premonitory shudder passes through the theater. She does not disappoint, and the words-"I'm a rich, ripe, ready plum again"-are not sung but caressed, as if they were old friends, which they clearly are. Sixty-four next month, Horne has not only been around, she has been all around for a long, long time...
After Reagan's program triumphed last week, O'Neill tried to hold his ground. He sat in the Speaker's vast office, his huge 260-lb. torso looking like a giant plum pudding, his long white hair falling over his blue eyes. As a television screen in the far corner of the room carried speeches from the House floor, he talked about the rising criticism of his leadership. "It hurts," he said, putting his sinewy hands on his knees. "It hurts a lot." Then he leaned forward in his chair, his massive head thrust out. "Wait till...
Larry Austgen, 31, of South Holland, Ill., is a contractor by trade, but a gambler by nature. Two years ago, Austgen built his first speculative house in suburban Chicago's posh Plum Valley: a luxury 2,400-sq.-ft. brick home guaranteed, he thought, to have the buyers lining up. Wrong. By the time it was built in August 1979, soaring mortgage rates and a souring real estate market had made a lemon of Austgen's plum. The house, appraised by realtors at $147,000, sat unsold for more than 18 months. Then Austgen had a sporting proposition...
...glaring juxtapositions. Whenever Kazem's wife appears in a scene, as she does for instance, in a sequence where Kazem sits on the beach and points to his scarred feet and ankles, the camera constantly shifts, focusing first on the Iranian's dark, weathered face and then on her plum, ivory face. The contrast is sharp and suggestive: for while Kazem describes, with grim experience painted on his face, the tortures he underwent, his wife looks on innocently, almost uncomprehendingly. In only a few frames, she becomes the personification of America, a nation that for the most part failed...
...with the President as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel last week. James Brady, 40, through an admixture of diligence, drive and affability, had parlayed 19 years of handling public relations work?including stints with the Defense Department, Senator William Roth and Candidate John Connally?into the plum of his profession, presidential press secretary. Timothy McCarthy, 31, the son of a Chicago policeman, joined the Secret Service in 1972 and two years ago won assignment to the prestigious presidential protection detail...