Word: alistair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reinforced by his chatty letters to Knightley, which are cited in extenso. Philby comes across as a slightly dotty old Brit, complaining about how hard it is to find "bilambees" (an Indian vegetable) in Moscow and fuming about the "preposterous" radio commentaries of "the BBC's own Smarty Cooke, Alistair of that...
Tanton aside, the English-language movement is something of a political hybrid, resisting categorization. Former and current members of the board of directors of U.S. English like Chavez and Cronkite, Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Alistair Cooke are hardly xenophobes. They believe that, in a land that was founded by immigrants, English is the essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created...
...found the perfect director for her skewering humor. Once he invigorated cabaret comedy as half of the Nichols and May team; now he orchestrates the romantic abrasions of Nicholson-Streep and the nifty cameos of Steven Hill as Rachel's flighty dad and John Wood as a nightmare Alistair Cooke. Generous and precise, Nichols shoots many scenes in long takes, observing the characters like a decorous dinner guest. Always alert to gestural cinema, he takes his time following the tentative caress of a friend's hand on Rachel's swollen belly, or a mother's joy and responsibility...
...Alistair Macleod: reading from his work, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library...
DIED. Max Gissen, 75, chief TIME book reviewer from 1947 to 1961, whose careful, thoroughly informed judgments and skepticism of cant or inflated reputation helped build what Alistair Cooke called "the most influential book page in the country"; in Weston, Conn...