Word: snowman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. BURL IVES, 85, goateed crooner and actor beloved by generations of children for his mellifluous renditions of Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his narration of the undying holiday TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...
...Crimson certainly has its work cut out for it in tonight's game. After Tuesday's nail-biting win against Dartmouth, Harvard has to stop this Adoninable Snowman if it wants to extend its one-game winning streak...
...mawkish and affecting, the film might be called Rocky, 8. The boxing match is a chess match, the plucky challenger is 3 1/2 ft. tall, and his ultimate opponent is an Apollo Creed kid with killer moves and no-soul eyes. Zaillian, whose early screenplays (The Falcon and the Snowman, Awakenings) turned real-life psychodrama into italicized melodrama, underlines the emotions here too, as if the subject weren't strong enough to hold the interest of a Nintendo child or a Home Alone parent...
Typifying the roller-coaster that many of the Crimson rode today was Wylie's round. After an ugly snowman (the dreaded 8) on the short par-five fourth, he righted himself, playing the next 11 holes in only one-over...
...American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler on his recent trip to eastern Nepal, from which he brought back photographs of prints that may support the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman. He has two books just off the presses -- on Siberia and Africa. In between all these activities, he is working on the second part of his semifictional "Watson Trilogy," based on a real-life Florida murderer, and is preparing to lead a tour group into remote Bhutan for more investigations...