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...Mariners led 1-0 after the first when Putnam doubled home Davis. They upped the lead to 2-0 in the second on Bob Tierney's RBI single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/24/1984 | See Source »

...Helen Tierney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1983 | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...just one year Cuomo plans more cuts in faculty and staff than in eight years of the Carey administration, said Student Association President Jim Tierney. "This is outrageous, ridiculous, unintelligent and wasteful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saving SUNY | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

...themselves. "Here I am, warts and all," Henry Fonda exults on the jacket of Fonda, Howard Teichmann's new as-told-to book. And Fonda's spirit merely mimics that of other such recent candor-struck memoirists as Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Ashley, Sidney Poitier, Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine and Ingrid Bergman. There cannot be many Hollywood giants left who have not been treated in one book or another. To peruse even a few thousand pages of these literary star treks, however, is to realize that they do not bring unmitigated pleasure to the ordinary reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...gluttony on or off stage or screen. The result is an inclination to inflate the clichés of existence with more dramatic heat than ordinary people can work up. The tendency to view life as though it were play-acting often surfaces in actors' words. Writes Gene Tierney at the end of Self Portrait: "If my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part?" Writes Robert Stack at the end of Straight Shooting: "In some ways my life was like a movie, full of twists and turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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