Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monaco than of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Hollywood; the immigrant Kellys' struggle for social acceptance is beyond her ken. She can chaff the prostitutes that line Avenue Foch outside her parents' Paris apartment and even joke when one is dropped off by a customer: "I wonder how those girls keep their hairdos in such good shape." But she will not be bourgeois. Grace would like her to take a cooking course at Maxim's. Says Caroline: "We have slaves for that." Replies Grace gently: "Yes, darling, I am your slave...
...reports, one of Garland's children begged her to make a promised stage appearance, if only for a group of wistful paraplegics. Judy's reply: "If they can wheel them in, they can wheel them out." Such anecdotes diminish both biographer and biographee and make the reader wonder why this sorrowful woman was worth 700 pages of heavy industry. Is the neon gossip meant to illuminate the warts, Judy and all? Or is it the mandatory downer for some future wide-screen version of Garland starring, say, Liza Minnelli...
...when he was 10. He had been sitting stop one of the powerful diesel engine tractors on his father's prosperous Lewis County dairy farm. The tractor lurched forward unexpectedly. The 80-pound boy fell off his makeshift seat and into the tangle of steel blades. It was a wonder he wasn't decapitated was the comment from the doctors who saved his life. As it was, he lost both legs...
...their anger and concern about federal intervention. A bank in St. Louis lost thousands of dollars in business just because a Government agent came around to check on whether or not the place was hiring enough women. The simple presence of the Government gumshoe made a number of customers wonder if something else was wrong with the bank. A frustrated university president told Cannon that he needed federal money but the restrictions now placed on its use violated the whole concept of excellence...
...Vegans perceive Greenspun as something of a menace himself. His ad hominem attacks offend some readers. Others recall his 1940s public relations work for "Bugsy" Siegel's Flamingo Hotel and wonder if Greenspun is still friendly with local mobsters. "That's the goddamnedest, most fabricated lie," he says, and points as proof to his occasional diatribes against organized crime. Adds Greenspun: "When you live in this town, you're rubbing shoulders with every facet of society...