Word: bella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political commitment; walks slowly toward Louise and waits as she steps up into their first illicit kiss-the most erotic moment in a movie that is as much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...when I.R.A. bombers blasted a bus carrying Irish Guards to their barracks, killing two civilian bystanders, injuring 22 soldiers and 16 other people on a Chelsea street. A week later, Lieut. General Sir Steuart Pringle, 53, commandant general of the royal marines, put his black Labrador, Bella, in the back seat of his red Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher condemned the attacks...
...liberal views helped Fenwick strike up a special friendship with former New York representative Bella Abzug, an odd-couple combination, to say the least. Fenwick the aristocratic, cultured woman of wealth--an old friend of the Rockefellers and the Dillons--and Abzug, the tough and sassy daughter of a New York meat market owner...
When Fenwick first came to Congress in 1975, she took Washingtonians by surprise. How could they know that the elegant, gracious Mrs. Fenwick was also an outspoken, steel-strapped pipe-smoker? As Bella Abzug told her, "Everyone expected you to be an uptight dowager." Perhaps Lacey Davenport, her caricature in the Doonesbury comic strip, explains best what Capitol Hill denizens really found. Charming and upbeat, she was unafraid to tangle with the personalities that might have had the power to end her career...
...Bella Wong...