Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor was an unexpected blow. The Equal Rights Amendment is stalled just three states short of ratification, and conservative anti-feminist forces are picking up strength in their fight against federally funded day care centers, ERA and other women's programs. The San Jose meeting echoed with sour charges of "betrayal," "desertion" and "ego tripping...
There was a sour moment one day when a crew member made the inevitable crack to Keaton: "Hey, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." Brooks reduced the cur to slag, and Keaton survived. "The lady is tough," he says. "I think she must have a lot of anger in there somewhere...
...wants to know is whether Annie Hall and Alvy Singer will manage to get their inadequacies synchronized and live together anxiously ever after. The answer, neurosis fans, is yes! Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, who gave the '70s a love story to believe in, green and warty and sour as a good dill pickle, live together on Manhattan's East Side, in apartments ten blocks apart...
...London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars in her later-life role of interviewer...
There are several ways in which a novel based on such a premise could run rapidly downhill. It could sour into morbidity or fist-shaking stridency or traipse into a misty, philosophical meadow, where every delicious moment is the first one of the rest of our lives. This tightly constructed first novel makes no such blunders. English Author Gillian Martin uses Hannah's perverse decision as an occasion not to settle old scores but to examine some unexamined lives...