Word: potter
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...Dennis Potter lived on TV. He was a dramatist, not an actor, yet viewers in his native England and abroad knew Potter's life story through his teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic...
...chronically disabled Potter, life was a death sentence; but he would have the last word. So this spring, two months before he succumbed at 59 to cancer of the pancreas and liver, he staged his own funeral oration on Britain's Channel 4 program Without Walls. In the 70-minute conversation with host Melvyn Bragg, the dying man displayed a new, calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied...
...Potter said John F. Scannel, facilities superintendent at the Divinity School, has told her the landscaping work had to be done early in the morning because "it's too noisy to do while they are having school...
...Crimson would go on to win the prestigious Potter's Cup post-season tournament at Yale the next weekend, beating Western Ontario, 5-4. Even more, Ezra would go on to win the individual national championship the weekend after that at Brown...
After the Yale win, the team kept it rolling even further with the Potter's Cup win and its general success at the individual championships, both of which solidified its position as the high and mighty of American collegiate squash...