Word: kingly
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Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...
Elvis (ABC). In the realm of unpromising ideas, this one looked like a lulu: the King's early life recounted in half-hour chunks of musical docudrama. The surprise was that star Michael St. Gerard created a character, not just an Elvis impersonation, and the short-lived series was a lovely evocation of the American show-biz myth...
Most Disconcerting Academic Inquiry Stanford University researchers discovered that Martin Luther King Jr. had borrowed heavily from other works without giving credit while preparing a doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1950s. After much angst, they called it plagiarism...
BUSINESS: King Arnold has a hammerlock on box offices around the world...
...reports that organizers of Arizona's Fiesta Bowl planned to contribute $100,000 to each of the two colleges fielding teams for the football game. The money would be designated for minority scholarships. Bowl officials hoped the offer would neutralize criticism of Arizona's refusal to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday, which had led to a call for colleges to boycott the game. But in a Dec. 4 letter, Michael Williams, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, advised Fiesta organizers that such "race exclusive" scholarships were probably illegal...