Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know if I have anything especially profound to say after four years of watching and covering the Harvard sports scene, but I do have a few thoughts I'd like to share...
...American Scene...
...signaled otherwise: "The biographer has no inherent right to copy the 'accuracy' or the 'vividness' of the letter writer's expression." For example, in 1941 Salinger dated Oona O'Neill, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and future wife of Charlie Chaplin. In one unpublished letter, Salinger imagined a scene from the couple's domestic life: "I can see them at home evenings. Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead rat. Oona in an aquamarine gown, applauding madly from the bathroom." The banned Hamilton version...
...White House then began trying to discredit some of the book's claims. In a letter to TIME on White House stationery, Army Colonel John E. Hutton, the President's physician, wrote that Regan's description of the scene at Bethesda Naval Hospital in July of 1985 is inaccurate. Regan had speculated that Nancy may have considered delaying the President's colon surgery on the advice of her astrologer. Not so, says Hutton. Regan points out that he said he only "feared" she was consulting with her astrologer...
...American Scene...