Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights rise on a fairly elaborate living room, cluttered and homey No streetlamps here: the idiom is absolutely current, the conversation of two writers in their early 20s grounded in references so familiar and accessible that they occasionally give one pause. The writer, John Monroe (Kevin Porter), is an Amherst dropout writing a novel. A former girlfriend wanted him to go back to business school, he tells Natalie, the lover who narrates his story, but the relationship went nowhere Natalie. (Pamela Thomas) has graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit...
...stand it does--for Salomon, it soon becomes evident, can really, truly write dialogue. The continuing repartee between Natalie and John, besides revealing humor and a fine ear, clearly delineates a couple of unusual characters. Porter, the stronger actor, fashions a strikingly individual Johnny out of scenes and speeches that often border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling...
...buddies: Bob Lanier, Kevin Porter, Ralph Simpson, Eric Money, John Shumate, Chris Ford, Ben Poquette and M.L. Carr. Once childhood heroes, these were the guys I worked with. In December, when the Detroit Piston Basketball Corporation Christmas cards arrived, there I was--along with the players, coaches, secretaries and janitors wishing the Motor City fans a happy Noel...
McConnell erased all doubts about her domination of women's squash the year with a devastating three-game demolition of Trinity's Nina Porter in yesterday's final...
...Crimson ace saved face by coming right back to topple McConnell's teammate Karen Kelso, in the consolation final for third place. Kelso came within a point of making it an all-UPenn final, but lost to a hard-charging Porter in the other semi-final match, a a marathon five-game classic...