Word: pooh
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...dedication and music (Elton John, born Reginald Dwight, even took his last name in honor of Baldry). He recorded more than 40 albums and had a successful voice-over career, receiving a Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children for The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh. died. susan gordon lydon, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Florida. She had the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm...
...DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists known for delighting young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films with their performances as the ever-anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, New Jersey and Moorpark, California, respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played other memorable roles, including Mr. Peterson, the brow-beaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s. Winchell, an early star of TV who regularly performed his ventriloquist act on variety shows in the 1950s and '60s, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is impeded not so much by Stinnes and his ex-wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said...
...plot device. But that's the way we want--need--these stories to be told, with frissons of black glamour and some risk factors. The emergence of distressingly ordinary W. Mark Felt returns the narrative to the quotidian. Which may not be such a bad thing. Various journalistic Pooh-Bahs are taking the occasion to remind us that journalism at its socially useful best must often rely on anonymous sources to do its job. Without them, it would be nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding, at a moment when public confidence...