Word: plumingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City...
...scarcely missed. Here Dodgson, again under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll, is in full control of his genius. Gone is the Victorian treacle, the sentiment that seeped through his earlier writings. In its place is a premonitory feeling of dread. As always in Carrolliana, logic lies on one side and absurdity on the other. Between the two, humor leaps like a spark, illuminating the strange journey of an impossible crew (nine men whose occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there...
...homage to their classic, Italians last week celebrated the centennial of Pinocchio in the tiny Tuscan village of Collodi (pop. 1,800), where Author Loren-zini spent much of his childhood and whose name he later took as part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past...
...needed. The children were grown: Jim was a vet in my office, and Rosie was a doctor a few miles away. My evenings were my own, and I had no excuse for putting it off. I sat before the TV set and began typing my stories." His nom de plume came from a televised soccer player; his ideas from old notebooks. The first version was not promising. "What I turned out was like the essays of Macaulay. Awful. A simple style takes a lot of work...
Trailing a Promethean plume of fire and smoke, the entire 18-story-high, 4.5 million-lb. package thundered off the pad, shaking the earth for miles around, a seismic jolt greater even than the tremors from the mighty Saturn rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. From the hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Kennedy Space Center came encouraging shouts: "Go, man, go!" "Smooth sailing, baby!" "Fly like an eagle!" "Oh my god, what a show...