Word: tattersal
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Virtually every blockbuster movie is a powerful fable of resilience. The audience finds vicarious strength watching Scarlett rebuild Tara, or Maria von Trapp spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy...
Lancaster, 28, was suing Tyrone Kinder, 38, who she says promised to marry her. Instead, Lancaster testified, he absconded with the young model's $11,000 life savings and other personal property, including her modeling portfolio. In 1975 she dis covered that Kindor had invested some of her money...
"Yeats sang. He sang the tatters in a kind of revenge upon the indignities heaped upon the body. Wherever we turn in those last immortal poems in The Tower and The Winding Stair we find the old man surpassing anything he had written in his younger years. We encounter the...
Lorena Hickok observer occasionally becomes Lorena Hickok prophet. In a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt from North Dakota, she describes the squalor and degradation of a family of farm laborors: no shoes or stockings, feet purple with cold. Only one bed, with dirty pillows, a ragged mattress, and a blanket in...
There is nothing obviously theatrical about the Allen Ginsberg who scutters among friends and fumbling technicians. One thirtyish woman in the audience, a "fan," fails to recognize him. Says she: "He looks like any college professor." Gone are the flowing beard, the Zapata mustache, the ragbag tatters. He wears a...