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Word: zelda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Lucy's day doesn't get any better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Grave Mistake | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...strikes out at both of them. The situation is somewhat similar to the time Hemingway and his first wife Hadley spent a summer living with Pauline Pfeiffer, a Paris Vogue editor who was to become the second Mrs. Hemingway. Yet Catherine shares some of her most unbecoming characteristics with Zelda Fitzgerald, the envious and unbalanced wife of Hemingway's pal F. Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...make this short, not all of us made it bad to Nanki's house in Tuckers Town that night. Zelda and I golfed one round then took he speed boat out to the tune of Kool and the Gang and a cooler of daiquiris. I may have been driving--I don't remember--but we seemed to be going up and down an awful...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Springtime in Bermuda | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...rest of our gang--Dorothy, Caroline and Stacey--on Elbow Beach, where a sea of peeling UVM skiers were trying to float rafts filled with beer. I was watching the sky go around when a man in rainbow shorts took pictures of Tatia and Zelda and insisted that they enter the Miss College Bermuda contest. At first they said no, but then the possibility of a year's supply of Budweiser dissolved their resistance...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Springtime in Bermuda | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Within seconds they were transformed into University of Virginia coeds, though they won little more than footage of a bathing suit competition taken by a probing camera and notoriety thoughout the country. Zelda received four proposals in the course of the day, and probably 10 times that many that evening...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Springtime in Bermuda | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

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