Word: myra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...wrote back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman's new publicist, Myra Friedman...
...returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer's Mr. America Pageant. Lose a few, win a few. He has also missed Love Story, Myra Breckenridge, The Sensuous Woman. He browses through the current paperbacks; words rise up and greet him like so much Urdu: ecology, software, encounter groups, moon rocks, body language, future shock, acupuncture, transcendental meditation, deep zone therapy. His trembling hands try the poetry shelf, but the words of Auden seem...
...Santa Claus came to town last week in Flushing, N.Y.-not a department-store imitation but the original St. Nicholas, who was a 4th century bishop in the Asia Minor city of Myra. Or at least a part of him came. Relics of the saint-fragments of his skull and a vial of oily substance said to have oozed from his skull-were formally enshrined in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Flushing. A gift from the Roman Catholic Church to the Greek Orthodox, the relics were sent to New York from the cathedral in Bari, Italy, where other relics...
Miss Welch seems obsessed with becoming Mae West. Perhaps it's just that she never recovered from Myra Breckinridge, but Raquel tosses out lines like "There aren't any hard women, only soft men" that are the sort that Miss West used to dispense. She, however, had a shrewd sense of self-parody. Raquel doesn't get the joke...