Word: zelda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine of his own novels. Scott's Zelda was the love object a worse and more prudent man would have rejected when the tinsel tarnished. Fitzgerald stayed in love...
Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories with the speed of a tabloid rewrite man, and for the journeyman's unvarying reason: to satisfy a desperate and constant need for money. The legend is familiar; when dun notes piled too high during the bright, wild days with Zelda, Scott could lock himself in a room and come out next morning with a story salable...
...gussied up in a blonde wig, an imitation tigerskin cape and a patterned gown that made the New York Botanical Garden seem like the Mojave Desert, Elsa Maxwell, 78, put on the biggest fountain scene since Zelda Fitzgerald wowed them in the '20s with her midnight dips in the pool outside Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings...
Historian Andrew Turnbull begins his biography with his childhood acquaintance with Fitzgerald; he got to know Scott, his wife Zelda and Daughter Scottie when they rented an old house on the Turnbull estate in Maryland in the early...
Lost Capacity. Fitzgerald was bent and almost broken with disappointment. His wife Zelda was slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were...