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Hace 4 días · By George Plimpton Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $35 Jan. 25 - Truman Capote is the poster boy for America's great cautionary tale for writers: Celebrity can kill you. Capote (1924-1984), the uneducated arriviste from Monroeville, Ala., sneaked into the postwar jet set as court jester, raconteur, father confessor, partygoer and giver, ...
Hace 5 días · Il sumo, George Plimpton e i portieri dell’hockey Qualcuno credeva di aver trovato la formula per evitare di subire gol nel disco su ghiaccio, resa però impraticabile da un cavillo del ...
Hace 1 día · El Liverpool Football Club (pronunciación en inglés: /ˈlɪvərpul ˈfʊtbɔl klʌb/) es un club de fútbol profesional inglés con sede en Liverpool, Inglaterra, que disputa la Premier League, máxima competición futbolística en dicho país. Fue oficialmente registrado como club de fútbol por John Houlding el 6 de junio de 1892, aunque ...
Hace 2 días · Life and career 1953–1979: early life. Lauper was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Catholic family. Her father, Fred, was of Swiss-German descent, and a direct descendant of Christen Lauper, a leader of the Swiss peasant war of 1653. Her mother, Catrine (née Gallo; 1930–2022), was of Italian descent (from Sicily).Lauper's siblings are her younger brother Fred (nicknamed Butch), and ...
Hace 3 días · The Plimpton Playing Fields are used for various outdoor sports. They are named in honor of alumnus and trustee George Arthur Plimpton (1873). Phelps Stadium is used for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey. It was converted into turf surface in 2006.
Hace 4 días · Alice Munro. , The Art of Fiction No. 137. Interviewed by Jeanne McCulloch & Mona Simpson. Issue 131, Summer 1994. There is no direct flight from New York City to Clinton, Ontario, the Canadian town of three thousand where Alice Munro lives most of the year. We left LaGuardia early on a June morning, rented a car in Toronto, and drove for three ...
Hace 4 días · At the time of this interview (December of 1998), she was about to begin her most recent novel, According to Queeney (2000), based on the life of Samuel Johnson. Since the 1960s, Bainbridge has lived in a comfortable house with a charming garden in Camden Town, North London. Inside, it is filled with quantities of heterogeneous objects.
