Word: sara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robot Redford, remotely controlled and made of fiber glass and aluminum, will march in the academic procession, but will not be dressed in gown and mortarboard. "We don't want to hoke it up," says Sara Gilbert, a spokesman for the college. The address will be delivered from the wings to the robot's speaker by its creator Bill Bakaleinikoff. Says he of his creation: "As soon as Robot gets ten minutes into his speech, they'll forget that he's a robot. Afterward they'll probably take him to the local malt shop...
...your story. A few personal quotes or some biographical details about her, as you had for Greg Meyer, the men's winner, would have made your article more complete. I hope in the future your sports department will be more professionally objective in coverage of women's athletics. Sara G. Shields...
...Sara and Gerald Murphy were more than monuments of the jazz age. Honoria Murphy Donnelly, their daughter, repeats the familiar accounts of her parents' grand style and hospitality, but she also describes in poignant detail the twin tragedies that shattered their European idyl: the death of the Murphys' sons, Baoth in 1935 of a sudden attack of meningitis and Patrick in 1937 after a long fight with tuberculosis, each within months of his 16th birthday. "The golden bowl is broken indeed," Fitzgerald consoled his friends. "But it was golden; nothing can ever take those boys away from...
...deaths effectively finished the Murphys' careers as world-class salon keepers. Gerald abandoned painting, for which he had considerable talent, and as the Depression deepened, reluctantly took over the family business, Mark Cross, the Fifth Avenue leather goods emporium. Villa America was sold. Sara traveled abroad, did volunteer work at a Harlem day care center and tried unsuccessfully to adopt two young brothers enrolled there...
Though apart for much of their later years, the couple wrote tender notes to each other and continued to lend their diminishing funds to friends and artists in need. Gerald died in 1964; Sara survived him for eleven years. Previous accounts have characterized the Murphys as collectors of glittering objects and achievers. But the revelations of Sara & Gerald prove that they deserve a larger consideration. In the beginning they were admirers; at the end they were admirable...