Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time Aaron had been beguiling his sophisticated New York City dinner guests with the story of how the widower Clyde courted the widow Gussie Lancaster, a childhood sweetheart who more than 60 years before had moved to California. Aaron, pressed by his wife, TV journalist Lesley Stahl (60 Minutes), has spun his tale into The Ballad of Gussie & Clyde (Villard; 176 pages...
...BOOKS . . . THE BALLAD OF GUSSIE & CLYDE: Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter Aaron Latham has written the mother of all Father's day's presents with this spare, beguiling tale (Villard; 176 pages; $19.95) of how his widowed father Clyde courted the widow Gussie Lancaster, a childhood sweetheart who more than 60 years before had moved to California. "Latham tells his 'true story of true love' in deliberate, prairie-flat language, strewing the landscape here and there with verbal posies and perhaps a few too many quotations from 17th century romantic poetry," says TIME's Jesse Birnbaum. "Still, the style...
Smile because it is hard for him to fathom now the thought of having once carried a weapon--a switchblade--to school. Smile because today he will graduate from Harvard. Smile because he will marry his high school sweetheart, Maiysha Lennon, this summer. Smile because in September he will enter the Harvard Medical School Class...
...SWEETHEART DEAL...
...aren't politicians real? It seems that once a person enters the political arena, he lives a fairy-tale existence [NATION, April 28]. In the latest episode, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's fairy godfather, Bob Dole, gives his old friend a sweetheart loan (possibly from campaign contributions) that most Americans would be unable to give their own son or daughter. Mother Goose couldn't write a better fairy tale. SANFORD DU ROFF Tarzana, Calif...