Word: laurel
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...chats with a group of visitors. His slender, brunette wife is in the kitchen preparing Sunday dinner as his six children, ranging in age from eleven years to four months, scamper about the flat. At one moment he glances briefly at a flickering TV screen, chuckles as Laurel and Hardy fall out of bed, then resumes his conversation. Six months ago, Lech...
...Labels have sort of lost their meaning," he says. "I feel that my values and attitudes came out of going to Sunday school in Magnolia Street Baptist Church. I believe what they taught me, I believe what they taught me in civics class in Maddox Junior High School in Laurel, Miss. I took them seriously." Then he adds, musingly, "I don't know whether they intended that...
...this year as the first political cartoonist ever to be granted a Nieman Fellowship. Now the staff political cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer--a respected and liberal (at least for the South) daily--Marlette grew up in the South, in places like Greensboro, N.C., where he was born, and Laurel, Miss., where he did most of his growing up. And it was in the small towns of the South that Marlette learned the values that provide the subtext for his cartoons: the idea that the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount amount to more than nice words for homilies...
...innocence," Forbert told a Newsweek reporter a year ago. An innocent quality certainly suffuses the country boy-meets-New York City material of Alive on Arrival., As I watch Forbert rehearse his road band, that innocence sparks again. Every time they run through Arrival's "Goin' Down to Laurel," the singer breaks into an exuberant, cowboy-booted shuffle. Music, including his own, is Forbert's obvious delight. A Meridian, Mississippi guitar teacher recalled him as "... an average player, but all fired up." In 1976, Forbert left home and a truck driving job to play Greenwich village coffeehouses...
...voice of bumbling Inspector Clouseau is swiped from a Paris hotel concierge; in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a film that will be released next week, Sellers imitates the uncle of his friend Lord Snowdon. Aurally acute listeners to Chance may recognize the voice of Comedian Stan Laurel. Although he was unmusical offscreen, he could become an opera star if the part required it. "Peter couldn't sing a bloody note," recalled Actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. "Yet when he sang Caruso, he took high Cs like Caruso." Throughout his career, Sellers stole or copied mannerisms of people...