Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.

Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.

In 1987, following a period of personal and professional issues, Robinson made a comeback with the album, One Heartbeat and the singles, " Just to See Her " and " One Heartbeat ", which both peaked at the top ten, with " Just to See Her " winning Robinson his first Grammy Award in 1988.

Her performance in Anastasia was considered a comeback — she had suspended her career for several years due to the death of her daughter Mary, and her husband's failing health.

Her comeback was a success starring in Tres Veces Sofía alongside Omar Fierro.

Her comeback came in a dual role as a young actress, Elsa Brinkmann, and an early-day movie goddess who was murdered, Lylah Clare, in producer-director Robert Aldrich's The Legend of Lylah Clare ( 1968 ) with Peter Finch and Ernest Borgnine for MGM.

Her television career stalled for a period, although she made a successful comeback as host of Today with Des and Mel ( with Des O ' Connor ) in 2003.

Her comeback found an eager audience among pre-war generations who had never forgotten her.

The songwriting duo also penned " Hearts in Her Eyes " for The Searchers, who made an unexpected comeback with their power pop-oriented album The Searchers in 1979.

Her first comeback tournament was in the 2009 New Haven doubles event.

Her final comeback was at the age of 73 in the original Broadway production Follies ( 1971-1972 ) with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Her last public performance was in 2005 in a comeback performance in Cardiff doing excerpts from her celebrated Isolde and other Wagner performances.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and caressed.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

Her eyes had opened, she had caught a glimpse of a new faith.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.

Her previous traumatic experiences flashed through her mind as if they had happened yesterday.

Her neighbors in the expensive Houston apartment building told reporters that the ash-blonde beauty had talked at times about her past as `` the Golden Girl of the Mickey Jelke trial ''.

Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.

Her estate had grown considerably.

Her entrance in Scene 2, Act 1, brought some disconcerting applause even before she had sung a note.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.

Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Her conclusion has been borne out in the experience of many practitioners: `` short-contact interviewing is neither a truncated nor a telescoped experience but is of the same essential quality as the so-called intensive case work ''.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

Her skin was stretched so tight that her cheekbones stuck out, and if looks could kill, Wally would have been dead.

Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

( Her older sister, Toni Bracher-Lawrence, has been a member of the Houston City Council since 2004.

Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Her paper has only recently been rediscovered, along with the rich, artistic illustrations and drawings that accompanied it.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Her relationship with the tower has been the subject of extensive global publicity.

Her birthplace may have been Poitiers, Bordeaux, or Nieul-sur-l ' Autise, where her mother died when Eleanor was 6 or 8.

Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages.

Her daughter Imogen has been quoted as saying " The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct.

Her personal dilemma becomes entangled with darkly hinted suspicions and prejudices raised by the crimes at the college, which appear to have been committed by a sexually frustrated female don.

Her husband's academic fraud had been exposed by one of his fellow dons there, destroying his career and driving him to suicide.

Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes.

Her mother and father, Cleopatra V and Ptolemy XII, had also been brother and sister.

A few have been filmed ( in some cases rather freely adapted ): Consider Her Ways, Random Quest, Dumb Martian, Jizzle ( filmed as Maria ) and Time to Rest ( filmed as No Place Like Earth ).

Her essays and articles have been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Signs, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and College English.