Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these diverse classes will all contribute to the future. Brown portrays the next generation's hope as a bright mulatto child. Catherine Despite its span of only a decade. Southern Discomfort stresses awareness of past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown implies, but we are all related somehow in this mad continuum...
...valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures" and that her crystal finger bowls symbolize "a neurotic obsession with cleanliness associated with the guilt...
There you have it. Ten things to do in Florida besides-lay in the sun. Just clip the list out, and put it away until you wake up one morning in Aunt Frieda's condo and the rain is playing bongos on the roof. While everyone else heads for Neiman Marcus and the Parrot Jungle, you'll know the esoteric spots--the places to go if you crave a Rheingold...
...dangerous. Amazing differences from brand to brand of the same kind of product often result. A 6-oz. can of Del Monte tomato paste has a mere 112 mg of sodium; Hunt's has 610. A Kellogg blueberry waffle has 260 mg, while the same size serving of Aunt Jemima hits 352 mg. Canned fruit is salty when it is peeled with lye. Because peas are sorted in brine for canning, a tablespoonful of canned peas has as much sodium (30.8 mg) as 5½ lbs. of fresh...
Anthony Anstey (Peter Van Norden) emerges not only as a too finely tailored and too fully fed villainous wheeler-dealer, but in Gutierrez's vision he becomes a Brechtian figure of American corruption. Goldie's aunt and guardian, Mrs. Kensworth (Anna McNeely), the kind, matronly refugee from a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, foreshadows the decadence of the roaring '20s. Her and Anstey's affectations, their overladenness with jewels, and their presumed moral superiority add a touch of the gilded future America would find in store...