Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate student said she thought it was unfortunate that someone could go through Harvard and "not know a single thing about one woman in the world...
...entertainment page these days a reader might think the whole country had gone (POW! WOW! WHIZ!) comic crazy. Annie is S.R.O. on Broadway, Superman is the highest grossing movie, and prime-time TV looks like one vast kiddieland. The Incredible Hulk is breaking up the furniture, Wonder Woman is bouncing over buildings, Captain America is flexing his muscles, and Spider-Man is crawling up the wall...
...addition to all his work for CBS, Lee is now negotiating a deal with NBC for the Silver Surfer, a cosmic comic messiah who floats above earth on his surfboard uttering windy profundities. ABC, meantime, is casting a covetous eye on a (no doubt) shapely Spider-Woman. Lee has optioned a dozen heroes to Universal, and is now thinking about setting up his own production company. "I've always thought of myself as being in show business," he says. "It's just taken the world a long time to realize...
...songs, dances and wisecracks seasoned with the rueful wisdom of age. Maxine Sullivan, whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a carpenter (Peter Walker) and a woman (Sylvia Davis) whose husband is hospitalized and dying supplies the musical's bittersweet plot line. At show's end the pair sashay out of the Golden Days to share their sunset years, and on leaving the theater you may find your own step noticeably springier...
...author of several brilliant short story collections and novels, subtly builds them to establish the existence of a singular bond between singular men. In time, Peregrine becomes a barrister and then a curmudgeonly journalist whose essays excoriate the modern world. Benedick becomes an electronic harpsichordist and marries a difficult woman named Joanna, who speaks eight or ten languages and runs what appears to be an armaments brokerage from a telex machine in their Wiltshire house. When Joanna restlessly and ruthlessly divorces Benedick, the two brothers push on to Istanbul. There Peregrine tries to be a poet. Benedick settles...