Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WRITER-REPORTERS: Edward M. Gomez, Alain L. Sanders...
...Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything (a shoe-box apartment), move to Seattle and marry him. Keillor says that when he started to write the script, his hero was a plucky male writer who moved to Manhattan, but Gloria, the archetypal tough, yearning New York woman, muscled in and took over...
Barton, playing Burton, is little help in the matter, given now dispassionately he plays his character. When he comes on stage, he strokes his chin in a failed attempt to seem the deep, pensive writer. But when he refers to his work, he is uninspired...
Zarin, a staff writer for The New Yorker, agrees that writing poetry is a long and difficult process that is often unrewarding for the artist. "Poetry is not a career choice," she says. "It certainly wouldn't be a very wise...
Simpson writes that the poets could not escape their pain, even after they had completed a substantial work. Berryman and Schwartz both experienced writer's block, and often the two would panic when their work had gotten a bad review, she writes...