Word: ulla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a good reason and a note from our mothers ("Jack was in a holding pattern above Logan Airport; please excuse his absence"). Still, it felt funny to know that Keillor was quitting cold, that he was going to live in an apartment in Copenhagen with his Danish wife Ulla. It was as if a tall, shock-haired boy we had all thought especially promising were heading off to the big city with a private smile on his face, leaving us rubes behind...
Keillor, who is 44, looked owlish a couple of hours before the last performance. In his dressing room he slapped shaving cream on his jaw and said without bitterness, but also without any trace of regret, that he and Ulla were selling their house in St. Paul and did not expect to live in the Midwest again. This was a realization, he said, "that came to me with stunning finality." There was no unfinished business here; renovation of the World Theater had been completed. A brave man named Noah Adams, lately of the public-radio news show All Things Considered...
...Ulla Bauers Alta Loma, Calif...
...Explains a student at the University of Helsinki: "The peace movement in this country has tended to be monopolized by the far left, seen as a thing of Communist propaganda. They talk about peace all the time, and no one believes them." When the country's leading pacifist, Ulla Gyllenberg, tried to encourage Finns to place lighted candles in their windows as a pacifist gesture, the project fizzled. Explained a Finnish journalist: "We only put candles in our windows for one thing, to demonstrate our independence from Russia on Independence Day" (Dec. 6; for a century ending...