Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finest French silk, spun by the larvae only the most aristocratic of silkworms, could speak, it would sound like Lauren Bacall. Affixed to a body that, in the '70s and '80s, has become the grist for more than a few older woman fantasies, that voice could fill a theater with a dramatic reading of the Globe classifieds. And that, alas, seems to be the theory behind Woman of the Year...
Since Dallas, Lorimar has launched three more sexy serials, and two of them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
...seasoned, merely grumble that it is the cussed contrariness of Old Man Winter pulling one of his periodic bone-chilling acts on the East Coast. In any case, the record-breaking weather of the past month was, of course, all ordained last August when squirrels gathered nuts and spiders spun webs much earlier than usual...
DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
DIED. Victor Galindez, 31, World Boxing Association light-heavyweight champion between 1974 and 1979; of injuries received during an auto race, when a racing car spun out of control and hit him and another driver (who was also killed), as the two were leaving their disabled vehicle; in 25 de Mayo, Argentina. A ferocious fighter who successfully defended his title ten times, the Argentine-born Galindez took up auto racing earlier this year after suffering two successive defeats in the ring and going into retirement...