Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Charles Ruggles, 84, long one of Hollywood's most engaging comedians; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. With mischievous look and disarming grin, Ruggles performed in more than 90 films, most of them comedies (If i Had a Million, Charley's Aunt). He appeared so often as the husband of fluttery Mary Boland that fans thought that they were actually married. He returned to Broadway in 1958 (The Pleasure of His Company), then more recently took on warm, grandfatherly roles in Walt Disney features (The Ugly Dachshund, Follow Me, Boys...
...Aaronsons' two children, my mother and my aunt, had arrived a day earlier, to help make the "arrangements." Now came the others. Around lunchtime of the big day, I arrived, one of the two grandchildren (out of five) who were able to come. After checking into my hotel room down the Avenue, I went right to my grandparents' apartment with my mother, knowing that my grandparents needed time to take a nap but also knowing that my grandparents, like the family they have created, are not all that good at containing themselves. I was not to be disappointed...
...implications of this are not lost on the business community. If you take little Tommy to see Santa at Jordan's, the cost for one print is $2.34. But naturally, grandma will want one, and so will Aunt Sally, so you buy the package of three for $5.50. And acting as Santa Claus, a parent must buy extra presents, and that means more profits for someone. Then you have your Santa Claus dolls, your Santa Claus outfits, and your Santa Claus statues for your front yard in Shaker Heights...
...plagued by any novel reader's knowledge that the author is the natural son of Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. Yet the book, which seems to be a fictional memoir, is profoundly preoccupied with its hero's growing awareness that the woman posing as his aunt is really his mother, and that he himself knows nothing about his father. Born in 1914, West is a semi-public figure in the U.S. For almost 20 years he has been a wide-ranging critic for The New Yorker. He has written seven novels, including one called Heritage about...
...suffers from the somewhat shopworn metaphor that forms its core. Billy (David Bradley) is a melancholy loner whose older brother bullies him and whose mother plays aunt to a succession of one-night uncles. Wandering in the woodlands near his Yorkshire village one morning, he spots a kestrel's nest and becomes intrigued with the bird's grace, its power and freedom. He steals a book on falconry, steals one of the kestrel's offspring and proceeds, with quiet dedication, to train the bird, which he calls Kes. The obvious contrast between earthborn Billy and skyborne...