Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judy Stern...
...soften the comandante's stern image, Nicaragua's New York-based public affairs consultant coaxed Ortega out of his customary green fatigues and into preppie tweeds. The revolutionary leader wowed Manhattan intellectuals at the august New York Athletic Club, elicited impassioned shouts from students at Harvard, was feted by civil rights leaders in Atlanta and was lionized by screen stars at a Beverly Hills lawn party. An internal Sandinista memo brashly stated the visitor's goal as "literally invading the U.S. media...
...family, Lange hangs back from any real confrontation. She goes through the motions but her heart just isn't in it. When she questions her son about a condom she has found in his room, for example, her voice has the soft cadences of a schoolgirl rather than the stern tone of an angry mother...
Ironweed was turned down 13 times, frequently with the comment "Who wants to read a book about a bum?" Bellow did, and afterward wrote a stern letter to Viking, the house that originally rejected the book: "That the author of Billy Phelan should have a manuscript kicking around looking for a publisher is disgraceful." The admonishment worked...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...