Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From where the poet sat one recent afternoon, the boats appeared to be moving through tall grass. It was a serene illusion. The tawny-green South Carolina marsh spread for a mile, hiding the waterway so that only decks and sails were visible. Playing off the seen against the unseen is one of the tricks of the writing trade and of particular current interest to James Dickey, whose second work of fiction relies heavily on the uncanny perceptions of a blind...
...note from our mothers ("Jack was in a holding pattern above Logan Airport; please excuse his absence"). Still, it felt funny to know that Keillor was quitting cold, that he was going to live in an apartment in Copenhagen with his Danish wife Ulla. It was as if a tall, shock-haired boy we had all thought especially promising were heading off to the big city with a private smile on his face, leaving us rubes behind...
...quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they dare to pray for the perfect man to save them from rural rectitude: "a tall, dark prince traveling under a curse." Worse luck for the witches, they...
DIED. Elizabeth Hartman, 45, high-strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
Julliard actors are rarely unemployed. From their school they make inumerable contacts, an invaluable aspect of any successful actor's life. Agents and casting directors come to the school every year in search of new talent, and McCrady definitely seems like the talent they will find. A tall, lanky man he has versatile looks that have allowed him to play the romantic lead in a Pudding show and the lead in The Elephant...