Word: toni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book published in 1982, Toni Bentley, a dancer for the New York City Ballet, made vivid the ecstasy and stress of working and living under George Balanchine's rule: it is a very direct and involving book--one which, Mallon suggests, helps Bentley "to find the way back to her art." Unfortunately, in the compiler's one-page synopsis that includes a few brief quotations, the force of this particular diary is all but lost and in a few awkward words the reader is abruptly shuttled across one of the many connecting bumps in Mallon's text and is confronted...
Literature about the Black middle-class has tended to be self-consciously critical, defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged, materialistic Black member of the bourgeoise. But Lee succeeds in transcending this "bitch" stereotype with Sarah Phillips...
Then Linda Griffin snuck a quick one past Harvard goalie Toni Tease--subbing for starter Tracy Kimmel--at the start of the third period and, all of a sudden, the lead was cut to three...
...Toni did not return phone calls during the last few days...
TIME'S editors could never tell which twin had the Toni either. TIME regrets the error...