Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less bleak 750 miles to the northeast in Deadhorse, a town of prefabricated modules that hunkers next to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, north of the Arctic Circle. The Prudhoe Bay Trading Post recently held a sale. DON'T SNOOZE, YOU'LL LOSE, the sign trumpeted. Clerk Lisa Greenwood had trouble staying awake. "At 8:30, there wasn't a soul in here," she says. "Business has gone down 50% in the past year." The house she and her husband Perry bought outside Anchorage two years ago for $120,000 is now appraised at $90,000. The mortgage payments...
...dated the same man. Both were mental patients during the same five months at McLean Hospital near Boston. Anderson's suit was prompted not by the book but by a scene in the movie that was invented by the filmmakers. It shows a suicidal Gilling making advances to Esther Greenwood, the fictional Plath. On the stand, Anderson said she found the seduction attempt "sickening beyond words and extremely objectionable...
...dozen of ill-assorted characters, from an uncommonly well-read bag lady to a neurotically self-dramatizing and spiteful 15-year-old. The gallery includes two gentle prostitutes, a trendy matron, three feminists reminiscing about the glory days of the movement, and an entire down-home household in Greenwood, Ind. Some of these people and their situations are the predictable stuff of sitcoms, and at moments the show makes fun of easy targets. Tomlin seems determined to find something sympathetic in each character, yet often defers such revelations until the obvious humor has been exhausted. Still, the self-examinations...
Paul Creswick's 1902 classic Robin Hood (Scribners; $18.95) is written in 19th century baroque: "You shall pay no more than ten pieces of gold for your entertainment, excellence," decreed Robin. "Speak I soothly, men of the greenwood?" But it is N.C. Wyeth's 1917 illustrations that carry the day. Each of them has the sweep and drama of unabashed romanticism; a score of movies have tumbled from these portraits of Robin, Little John and Maid Marian. And there have been even more literary spinoffs. Surely this is not the last of the retellings; it is merely...
John Thomas Chiles Greenwood...