Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch with practically everybody who ever knew him and try to put together a composite profile," says Shields, who even tracked down one of Silverman's college fraternity brothers. After many phone calls and a chance meeting with Silverman at a party, she received word that he had changed his mind...
...jury rolls, expanded a suspect's right to counsel and established a "right to treatment" for mental patients. Martin Luther King Jr.-who was, ironically, being wiretapped and harassed by the FBI -once said of Judge Johnson: "That is the man who gives true meaning to the word justice...
...Vegas but on the concert hall circuit. Writing, he dis covered, came naturally. He wrote part of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, several segments of Sanford and Son, and parts of two Lily Tomlin specials. Acting came just as naturally. If he never said another funny word, Pryor could undoubtedly make it as a major Hollywood actor. Says Michael Schultz, director of Greased Lightning: "He can do the same scene ten different ways-all of them right...
...going to take my money?" he asked. "Just at this moment, the waiter brought the coffee in," writes Cerf, the ever faithful reporter. "Suddenly Dreiser seized his cup and threw the steaming coffee in Liveright's face. [He] got up from the table without a word and marched out of the restaurant." Liveright turned to Cerf and said, "Bennett, let this be a lesson to you. Every author is a son of a bitch...
This mannered little comedy of bedroom hanky-panky aspires after wickedness-the word Nabokovian is used wistfully in the dust-jacket copy-and achieves naughtiness instead. But that is enough to sustain Author Fay Weldon's fifth novel, one of those lazy summer afternoon collusions in which the writer feels superior to her characters, and the reader smiles at the writer...