Word: sir
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Beyond clothing and nomenclature, fairness requires more domestic tension in the White House. After all, what gives you and the First Lady the right to remain puppy dogs in love way past your Geritol years? (Just a hypothetical question, sir.) We suggest bringing one of your spunkier children to Washington and encouraging him or her to gab with the press about your shortcomings as a parent...
...again. Liz and Dick? Well, yes, but also Amanda and Elyot, the bright and brittle lovers in Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, Private Lives. What could be more perfectly dramatic than for Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Richard Burton, 56, to combine their ability to light a fuse with Sir Noel's talent to amuse? At a press conference in Los Angeles announcing their first joint outing on Broadway this spring, the blithe spirit of the Burton-Taylor repartee could have been orchestrated by the Master himself. Said Taylor: "Richard is one of the finest actors of this century...
DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap...
...voice of the protagonist and it is a sympathetic, rather unjudgmental one. Borrowing lines from the true Starkweather story which was later popularized in the film Badlands, Springsteen writes: "I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done At least for a little while sir me and her we had some fun." The final line of "Nebraska" also comes from Starkweather, who was the last man electrocuted by the state of Nebraska. When asked why he had committed the murders, Starkweather said, "I guess there's just a meanness in this world...
...fill his people with the pride and courage to first defy, then change a society that demeaned and degraded them. As a Black janitor said after the completion of the Montgomery bus boycott, "We got our heads up now and we won't ever bow down again no sir except before...