Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been through two hips, seven husbands and countless dress sizes, so ELIZABETH TAYLOR isn't about to be stopped by a benign brain tumor. Taylor's condition was diagnosed after a checkup last week, but she has postponed surgery until the day after the celebrations for her 65th birthday on Feb. 16. It's not just that she loves a good party. The event is a fund raiser for her longtime cause, AIDS research. Before the diagnosis, Barbara Walters bagged an interview for 20/20 and learned that Liz also plans to be present at the birth of Michael Jackson...
Gast eventually won rights to the 400 hours of footage, but could find no investors until, in 1986, David Sonenberg, a manager of rock talent, volunteered. After transferring the deteriorating film stock, Gast and filmmaker Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) completed the film in 1994, hoping to promote it with a sound track CD comprising music from the festival stars (James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba) and new groups like the Fugees, who laid down a rap track over Ali's incantatory doggerel. But no one wanted to distribute the movie--until it won the documentary prize...
Having one's heart warmed is a chilling experience not always avoidable by even the wariest cynic. A shameless manipulator in the hot-ventricle dodge is Michael Dorris, who 10 years ago, as a first novelist, gave us Rayona Taylor, the 15-year-old, part black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...
...fury abates with Marcella, one of Bridie's daughters. Recovering in a TB sanatorium, she falls in love with Earl Taylor, a handsome young black man who delivers groceries. Their son is Elgin, and his daughter is Rayona. Dorris, whose own ancestry is Irish, French and Modoc Indian, writes that "the past ruled the present with unsympathetic dominion." And until Rayona, this is true. With her, the future is April going on May. Her reappearance at the end of this intricate and brooding second novel cools like a spring breeze...
Terrier freshman Chris Heron sent delightful touch pass to the streaking Pierce, who knocked the water bottle off of Taylor's top-shelf...