Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worldly prince of fashion remains an inveterate daydreamer, just as in his high school days. At times he has spoken of opening a steakhouse on Madison Avenue, a project that has yet to materialize. He has talked about starting a record company. Often Lauren has expressed an ambition to be an actor, though he turned down an offer to make a guest appearance on TV's The Love Boat...
...believe that really happened, you, like thousands of other gullible Americans, have been taken in by one more of the hundreds of urban legends that regularly make their spoken way across the country. "The Mexican Pet" is nevertheless, the authentic title story of Jan Harold Brunvand's third collection of whoppers. Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled...
With all of the Harvard tradition, though,Walker could feel a little left out, not being apart of the family. But, he says, the Universityhas made him feel at home and he has spoken tomany representatives of it to give him a betteridea of the school's history. And now Walker has acrew of a seven people, including his wife, fromTommy Walker Productions working with...
...slight, soft-spoken woman, Hurd gained practice in the frugality and tough-mindedness that brought Aliens in on its relatively modest $18 million budget. She is capable of denying her husband the time or the equipment he needs for one of his on-set brainstorms. When he insisted on a laser scanner for the picture's first sequence, she made him pay for it himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn...
...toward sexual freedom . . . Americans perceive a serious crisis to the long-range stability of the American family. The American people are looking for a return to moral values that strengthen the family." The theme is not just limited to the preachers of the right. Jesse Jackson, for one, has spoken out against "sex without love," arguing that teenage pregnancy is blighting the next generation of blacks...