Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scrawny Tom Collins is sent to infiltrate the Cafe Ole, where he soon bares his argyle cardigan breast for the woman of his dreams, barmaid Ginny Tonic (Ted Stimpson '89). His polyester pelvis gyrations and saddleshoe pirouettes team with his outstanding voice to make the "I Copped a Feeling" number shine. If not for Collins and the choreography, the lyrics of the number would put the audience to sleep...
...This means that a woman who is a private developer, a close associate of a city councillor and a member of one of the city's most powerful boards knowingly and willfully violated the law," said Martinelli...
...stack of paperbacks. A man who told his famously beautiful wife that the only thing to venerate in life is not love but language. This, surely, is not the Richard Burton of the boozy brawls, the ruined talents, the tossed-away millions on baubles for Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises can remain about a man who spent a life in the headlines. But the raw material made available by Burton's widow included letters and 350,000 words...
...them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
Friends and observers agree that her husband's presidential defeat was an emotionally crushing blow to Kitty. An energetic and ambitious woman, she had thrived on the demanding schedule, tumult and attention of the campaign. Sandy Bakalar, a close friend, says, "Kitty was going 1,000 miles a minute. Then on Nov. 8 it was suddenly over. It was a terrible loss." Her husband, meanwhile, handled the loss in his usual stoic fashion. "Kitty had to do the mourning for both of them," says Richard Gaines, editor of the Boston Phoenix, who has long reported on the Dukakis family...