Word: turned
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...your "Feud Of The Week" item, you described Sylvester Stallone as a "monosyllabic actor" [PEOPLE, Oct. 19]. Look, I'm no defender nor an especially big fan of Stallone's, but you said he was considering an offer to turn his $25 (three syllables) million (two syllables) Miami (three syllables) home into a luxurious 200-room (four syllables) hotel...
What follows would shame the gods, if any were paying attention. Here's the mother, back in the U.S., in old age: "Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver...
...clear away the clutter of the midterm elections and turn our energies to the next two years of presidential speculation, many of us find ourselves rooting unabashedly for one candidate in particular to enter the race. Who is that candidate...
LOOK WHO'S TRYING TO TURN GREEN...
DIED. ANTHONY CELEBREZZE, 88, former Cleveland, Ohio, mayor who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare from 1962 to 1965, helped turn the slogans of the New Frontier and the Great Society into laws; of cancer; in Cleveland...