Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lennon's childhood seems to have been unhappy in every external circumstance. Fred, his father, deserted his wife shortly before John's birth. His mother soon left John in the care of an aunt, Mimi. Mimi's husband George, who became the child's close friend, died when John was thirteen. At this time John's real mother reappeared, and she and John became extremely close: "She spoke the same language, liked the same things, hated the same sort of people." At about the time John entered Art College his mother was run over by a car and instantly killed...
...like illness, sometimes affords its survivors unique insights. Sculptor Lucas Samaras, 32, grew up in Macedonia during World War II and the Greek civil war. Now a U.S. citizen, he still remembers "the bombings, the hiding, my aunt's ripped belly, the sound of executions, the strange pride in being visited by a catastrophe...
Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...
...saddening and maddening-and adolescence such a groovy movie subject. In Zita, an archetypical French fille named only Annie flits agonizingly between life and death. The daughter of a slain Spanish loyalist, she has sympathy for the world but affection for none of its inhab itants, except her ancient Aunt Zita (Katina Paxinou). One afternoon the girl comes home to find the old lady writhing on the floor. Zita has suffered a stroke, and each gasp edges her closer to the grave...
...picaresque Parisian tour beloved of Vassar girls in their junior year. Boys woo her, flics pursue her; an older man takes her to a boite. Eventually, she and a cellist make beautiful music together on his pallet. When the sun comes up, Annie returns to bid farewell to her aunt and to her childhood...