Word: thaxter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative influence upon anyone who came of age during that "post-Gutenberg and pre-Apocalypse...
John Weinstein of Winthrop won the individual title, beating Bill Thaxter of Dunster by fifty yards, although the race had been close over most of the two mile course. Jeff Peck of Lowell, who placed third in last year's meet again finished third to pace the winning Lowell team...
...slaughtered everything from ABC's American Bandstand to CBS's Playhouse go. Their titles alone have been irresistible -"The Cold Woman," "The Glamour Trap," "The Trapped Housewife," "Change of Life." The program hires first-rate talent, too. such as Sylvia Sidney (menopause), Kim Hunter (frigidity) and Phyllis Thaxter (the trapped housewife-in real life, Thaxter is the wife of James Aubrey, president...
...will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE, a new comedy by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, starring Art Carney and Phyllis Thaxter, opens at the Shubert on Tuesday for a two-week...