Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until you know what you want to do, and you do not know what you want to do until you start. That is catch-23. Panic breaks that circle. Finally a certain force in the accumulated material begins to form a pattern. Most people think that you build a skeleton and then you know whether you are going to write a dog, a giraffe or whatever. What happens, in fact, is that you do a perfect little finger, and then you do four others, and then you write a wrist. You begin to get a sense of what kind...
...despite the accent on the first syllable, my name is clearly a repository for the English word 'alert,' as if the name is a thousand-year-old clay receptacle with paranoia curled up in the shape of a child's skeleton inside. I myself have always been quietly alert...
...political persuasions. Its editor, Christian Zentner, says that over the next two years the magazine will attempt to explain how "the nation of poets and philosophers" could become "a nation of murderers and criminals." But many Germans apparently still care less about that question than about keeping the skeleton of the Nazi era closeted...
...activity, however, Richard Nixon was in fact on vacation. Most of the week he stayed secluded behind the walls of the windswept presidential compound. Some days he did not even walk the 100 yds. from his Spanish-style house to his office; often he would telephone members of the skeleton staff that accompanied him to California rather than meet with them in person. He spent a quiet New Year's Eve with Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia, then devoted the next day to watching televised bowl games with his close friend Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo. Clearly, Nixon was seeking...
...marigolds, for the first time, make her proud. Zindel skillfully draws a portrait of Beatrice's shattered life, of epileptic Ruth's rebellion and Tillie's strength in her world of scientific experiments--and the tightrope walk of their dependence on each other. But a script is only a skeleton, it is up to the actors to give it flesh and blood. These three women come close to doing that, but they can't quite complete the forms...