Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, according to police testimony at a preliminary hearing, Harris arrived at Tarnower's six-acre estate carrying a .32-cal. Harrington and Richardson revolver in a box. She told police that she and Tarnower had a violent argument in his bedroom. "Get out! You're crazy!" he shouted at her. They struggled. Harris was severely bruised on her upper lip and left arm, and Tarnower was shot four times...
...conference, former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 endorsed Bush's candidacy for the Republican nomination. Richardson said he is "absolutely confident that I will not be embarrassed" by the endorsement, citing Bush's tenure as director of the Central Intelligence Agency as "a period in which abuses were being corrected...
...Earl T. Richardson, president of Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA), which sponsored Cruse's lecture, said Monday that "the discussion was very open and thought provoking...
...journalists who actually keep a daily journal, which he employs here as a film director might use jump cuts. He has the panache to handle the first person singular, although the effect can be cloying when he immodestly quotes himself: "Above all, there was the voice [Sir Ralph Richardson's], which I once described as 'something between bland and grandiose: blandiose, perhaps...
Tynan pays his respects to criticism in shrewd analyses of Richardson's performances and brief exegeses of Stoppard's plays. But mainly the author aims to please both his subjects and his readers. He is dazzled by Stoppard's stylish pessimism and flashy wordplay, yet wisely blocks him from the company of Beckett, Nabokov and Oscar Wilde. Deftly, Tynan puts his judgment of Stoppard in the book's foreword: "A uniquely inventive playwright who has more than once been within hailing distance of greatness." The piece itself is an adulatory delight, especially a scene in which...