Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams has sung gospel since her childhood, and her many tours with the Ward Singers and Duke Ellington have won her a world-wide reputation. As the star of "Black Nativity." she also introduced the first Jazz Mass at the Antibes Jazz Festival...
...hitchhiking and girls' feelings toward him. He was always the victim of pranks. Teenage girls would give him phone numbers which they said were theirs but which actually were those of their worst enemies. Another prank involved the hospital. Frankie was an expert on current events in the maternity ward, but he was ignorant about the new wing. He was fascinated when some kid told him the wing folded up into the building at night...
Across the Atlantic last week, several parents who also happen to be famous entertainers proudly posed their offspring for photographers. In a Paris church, an Armenian prelate baptized a reluctant Katia, the daughter of Singer Charles Aznavour and his wife, Ulla. At a maternity ward in North Wales, Actress Gayle Hunnicutt introduced her newly born and yet unnamed son to her husband, British Actor David Hemmings. And near London, where she opened at $84 a week in a nonsinging part in the Henry James play, The High Bid, Eartha Kitt took time off from her new role to play with...
...City subway. The typical building is a grim fortress with old equipment in poor repair. The food is plentiful but dull; instead of tissues and toilet paper, the patient makes do with yesterday's Pravda. The institutions are well described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his novel, The Cancer Ward. To some patients, though, such hospitals look like paradise. Among them are alcoholics, a major Soviet problem, who can wind up in "corrective-labor detention centers...
Tristana is the ward of a graying voluptuary, Don Lope (Fernando Key). Lope is an aristocrat, an atheist and a hypocrite-three distinct personalities that Rey manages to portray simultaneously. As his money and his vigor recede, Don Lope pursues the bewildered girl and overtakes her. Once seduced, Tristana is a figure of metastasizing vengeance. When she becomes the mistress of a young artist (Franco Nero), Don Lope shouts in misery, "I prefer tragedy to ridicule . . ." The girl awards him both. Her flight with the artist is ended by a disease that costs her a leg. Convalescing in the house...