Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commissary waitress, Susie (Mary beth Hurt), who has granted her favors to some married bounder and is, as she puts it, "a little bit pregnant," provides the writing duo with an inspiration. They will pair her soon-to-be-born child with the roughrider of the purple sage and tug at the nation's heartstrings...
...cast from another. Flo has the best, and the thief in a flat sub-plot, Jerry Mander (Tim Feran) has a lot of the really bad puns and low humor (in response to Henna's rejecting him because he's stupid, he says "I'll be partially sage, Rosemary...in time...
...criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance on a notion of "some poets do"--instead of "all poets should"--formed the basis...
Forman instead brewed up harmless-sounding potions, including one made of "sage, marjoram, elderbuds, ashbuds, berberis, liquorice, aniseed, aloes and juniper berries." He seems to have reassured people more than he treated them, and that was probably for the best, given the primitive state of medical science and the appalling maladies of the time. Confronted with a patient who "breeds worms in his nose of stinking sweet and venomous humor," Forman sensibly recommended a change in diet and frequent face washing...
...news of the dead Knight's homosexuality was fully reported in the family papers. Later a sallow, sometime student, William Sage, 20, who is married, told Philadelphia police that he had carried on a five-year liaison with Knight in Detroit. Sage led police to a chest in Knight's apartment containing tape recordings of homosexual encounters, pictures of naked boys and Knight's diary-which ironically recorded the fact that as a result of analysis, Knight was beginning to like women...