Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captain of TV's long-sailing Love Boat; and Patti Steele MacLeod, 54, his wife of seven years whom he divorced in 1982; in Omaha. The couple remade their vows at the annual convention of Born Again Marriages, a religiously oriented group that works to reunite divorced couples. Singer Pat Boone and his wife Shirley were the MacLeods' attendants...
When Isaac Bashevis Singer's Collected Stories appeared in 1982, his legions of faithful readers had cause to celebrate and worry. On the one hand, the volume was an invaluable retrospective of the tales that had helped bring Singer an international audience and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. On the other, collections imply finality, a summing up of past work because there may be nothing more to add. Might Singer, now 80, have exhausted himself or his imagination? Was this hailing of previous accomplishments also a farewell...
...hostages' putative host was Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who is negotiating on behalf of the hijackers. One of his first efforts at conciliation was mildly encouraging. He announced on Tuesday that he had talked the hijackers into releasing three "Greeks," including Folk Singer Demis Roussos. The others turned out to be the singer's American secretary, Pamela Smith, and an American of Greek descent, Arthur Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung...
...solo album, Crazy from the Heat, in the dead of last winter. Record buyers warmed to California Girls, one of the album's singles; another, Just a Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody, is still on the charts. Roth's rock roll has music gossips asking whether the flamboyant singer will ever return to Van Halen, the group where he started. His response: "I asked (Van Halen), 'How long do you think it will take to make the next record?' 'Better give it about a year,' they said. I said, 'A year? I've never done anything for a year...
...wanted to be--a bitch and a looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...