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Novelist Leslie Marmon Silko: $176,000 in 1981. Before receiving her award, Silko was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona. "I was sliding into despair. I might have thrown in the towel," she says. "Teaching just didn't give me the time I need for writing." Silko, who is a Laguna Pueblo Indian, now lives with her two sons on a small ranch in the Tucson Mountains. She has finished a screenplay, intended for public television, that is based on an Indian fable about an encounter with evil. She also reports "good progress...
Midnight was approaching. Republican Paul Trible of Virginia and Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont were in black tie, restlessly unable to attend a social function. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, 74, decided to go home and go to bed. Howard Baker in effect threw in the towel. He asked the Senate to reconsider the Gorton compromise. "I did not support it, and I do not support it," he said. "I don't like what I am doing." But Baker argued that the Senate must try to pass some resolution and then fight out the issue in conference committee meetings with...
...going for the wet bathing suit look or the towel draped over the genitals," explained a model for the "Men of Stanford" calendar who asked not to be identified. He added, "No one can be offended by what we've done...
...increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association (ATA)--the industry's major voice in Washington--it looked like a rather unpleasant bill of goods. Not being the kind of group to throw in the towel without a substantial show of muscle, the ATA conceded defeat only after wringing a very substantial concession from an overtired Congress...
Wednesday, 10:15 a.m. At his desk in his small first-floor office, an ever present towel tossed over his left shoulder, Levine scans the mail and then meets with General Manager Anthony Bliss to discuss a choreographer for next season's opening production of Berlioz's Les Troyens; already three have declined. Assistant Manager Joan Ingpen, who is in charge of artistic administration, pops in to have Levine approve a "cover" for a sick tenor and to vet Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted...