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Perhaps the most impressive of her long list of accolades occured this past November 27. In a 2-2 tie against Northeastern, she broke the record for saves in a career with 1,771, surpassing the old mark of 1,747 held by Cheryl Tate...
Already you hear echoes of Foster's own Little Man Tate, as well as E.T., The Miracle Worker, The Wild Child, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Forrest Gump and Green Mansions (the last with Audrey Hepburn memorably miscast as Rima the Bird Girl). Nell is a fable of emergence and transcendence. Written by William Nicholson and Mark Handley, from Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted...
...Frolic of His Own" -- the second time Gaddis claimed the prize. (He won in 1976 for his second novel, "JR.") Other winners, announced last night, are: surgeon Sherwin B. Nuland's "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter," a meditation on death, in the nonfiction category; James Tate, a University of Massachusetts professor, won the poetry prize for, "Worshipful Company of Fletchers"; and poet Gwendolyn Brooks received the National Book Foundation Medal, a lifetime achievement award.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
...Angeles police search for several suspects in the brutal murder of actress Sharon Tate and four companions...
...many of De Kooning's key paintings from the '40s and '50s were not lent. The show titled "Willem de Kooning Paintings," which opened this month at the National Gallery in Washington -- it will go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, and later to the Tate Gallery in London -- is not a real retrospective either. It leaves out both the worst of De Kooning, his sculpture, and some of the best, his drawings. But it does have quite a few of the paintings that were missing from the effort 10 years ago and is certainly...