Word: plums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moves in as nanny. The 1937 Stage Door has an array of dazzlers (including Hepburn and Ginger Rogers) as young actresses angling for Broadway stardom. They fight over powerful men, choice roles and new stockings. And amid the lightning comedy, the most sensitive creature (Andrea Leeds), having lost a plum part, commits suicide...
...Gogol's Dead Souls to star Alec Baldwin; casting director Sara Radisson-Stein gives birth to a son who is blind, and she writes moving letters to him ("I'm sitting beside you as I write; the faintest light falls upon your marzipan cheek. You're the sweetest plum..."), while her TV-producer husband descends into crack addiction. The content of Wagner's satire of Hollywood is not particularly fresh, and the sexual grotesques that fill his book are the common currency of fiction these days. But the particulars of the author's images, tones and language give...
...highlights of the class involves a full day trip to Crane Beach and Plum Island to measure erosion...
CUMBERLAND ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, GEORGIA Known for its maritime oak forest and bird habitats, the facility does not have the funds to hire summer workers or seasonal custodial personnel. Island ecology programs and tours of the Plum Orchard Mansion will be eliminated. Restroom sanitation may also be compromised...
...want the job at all. Last week a confused Dole official hunted for a positive explanation. "It's like they want to prove they're all thumbs so they won't upstage the big guy," he said. That could be it. It could also be that this plum is looking more like a prune...