Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DARLINGS, I wanted to be the first to brush back my long flowing tresses, throw open my dainty little mouth and shout--in an operatic tremor befitting a DIVA like myself--BRAVA on your latest FABULOUS double issue of Peninsula...
...reflects its author's personality perfectly; it even replicates the tremor in her voice with dashes and sentence fragments. An odd bird Hepburn be, but then so is Rose Sayer pouring gin over the side of the African Queen. And Jo March sliding down a banister. And Susan Vance singing to a leopard. And incredible Tracy Lord -- lighted from above, in a George Cukor close-up, dressed by Adrian, and kissed by Jimmy Stewart in the moonlight. For lovers of film, it's very hard for the artist who made these women...
BOOKS Katharine Hepburn chronicles her idiosyncratic life to a tremor...
...latest tremor came last week when the American Red Cross announced it was totally revamping its facilities and procedures for handling blood donations -- an admission that the current system is not as safe as it should be. Confidence in the U.S. blood supply has been shaky since the early days of the AIDS epidemic when there were frequent reports that hemophiliacs and other patients were being infected from transfusions. To date, more than 4,100 blood recipients have contracted AIDS. Fearful Americans increasingly are banking their own blood in advance of scheduled operations or giving donations earmarked for family...
...compensate for the one great tragedy of his life, the death in 1982 of his wife Ruth, after a 15-year struggle with cancer. "I don't cry easily," Sokolof says, but when he talks about Ruth, which he does incessantly, there are tears in his eyes and a tremor in his voice. In his spacious condominium, where he lives alone, he proudly shows visitors her paintings and clippings about her charitable work with blind children. "She made me a better person," he says...