Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...girl-children [are] nymphets," wrote Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita. Few indeed have the "fey grace... the slenderness of a downy limb" and other nascent charms so dear to a Humbert Humbert. Edward Albee, who is staging a drama based on the novel, chose Blanche Baker over hundreds of preteens to play eleven-year-old Lo to Donald Sutherland's fortyish Humbert. Blanche is 24, but well qualified. She was virtually born for the role: her mother, Carroll Baker, won stardom 24 years ago as the sensuous heroine of Baby Doll. As for Blanche's advanced age, she says...
...news from the Bide-A-Wee home for semiretired movie stars of the '50s is that, all things considered, most of the folks are as lively as crickets. Liz and Rock, Kim and Tony and, of course, dear Angela, all seem enthusiastic about putting their slightly thickened selves on public display so that older members of the audience can check their memories of what once was with what now is, and youngsters can peer quizzically at their parents and speculate on the basis for such odd enthusiasms...
...education of women; through much of Alice's life he remained blissfully unaware of her development. In an extraordinary letter which he wrote during a shopping spree in New York, he told her that he had picked up a "half-hundred" foreign photographs for William. "But they are too dear to permit me to buy any fancy ones for you," the letter continued, "...If I had only brought a little more money with me!" Later in her life, when she threatened to commit suicide during one of her nervous attacks, Henry senior blithely informed her "that...
...clear whether Democrats in the new Congress will lose their zeal for other issues once dear to their party or unite in a mindless out-party opposition to whatever the incoming Reagan Administration proposes. Either way they could contribute to the widespread reputation of a disorganized and interest-ridden Congress as being part of the nation's problems rather than as a body offering solutions...
...fund raising is closely linked to the specific groups, and many of these committees solicit funds through mass mailings. From the NCPAC and YAF to conservative religious affiliations like the Moral Majority (chaired by Jerry Falwell, host of "Old Time Gospel Hour"), letters that address the receiver as "Dear Friend" are sent by the millions, attacking single issues such as abortion, busing, gay rights, pornography, ERA, and even certain textbooks. Other letters take a more propagandistic approach, publishing general views on defense spending, and fundamentalist notions of the traditional family life in America. Regardless of the content these letters share...