Word: writing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...features a mute cast of felines. Author and illustrator Barbara McClintock places her 19th century tale onstage, where everything is expressed through the dramatic pose and the pregnant paws. Minette is pursued by the rakish Count Bisquet and the worthy Lionel. In the end she spurns them both to write her scandalous memoir, which becomes an overnight success. If there is any justice, so will this comic biography...
...funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy 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...
Eileen Simpson, Berryman's wife, agrees that the older generation of literary artists used their writing to help them survive their many difficult experiences. In her book, Poets in Their Youth, she writes that for her husband, "the only thing was to write poetry. All else was wasted time...
While the latest crop of poets to be produced by Harvard has yet to meet the standard of greatness set by their teachers, these writers, too, have been driven by the need to write...
...years were awful. She abandoned her last film role in 1972. Eight years later, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...