Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smithsonian's ten museums every year are familiar with the big draws: the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk, the moon rocks, Archie Bunker's chair, the Hope diamond, the First Ladies' dresses, Fonzie's leather jacket, the ruby slippers that took Judy Garland back to Aunt Em in The Wizard...
Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...
...string of disparate moments. Since Curse's first, highly successful opening in Chicago two years ago, Alfred has added a few long scenes and written in the only direct confrontations the script contains--Fran and Jo-Jo's single explosive moment and, later, her meeting with her aunt, which sparks a long talk over old times. But rather than fleshing out the story, the additions sit uneasily and discontinuities are all too evident. What pleasure, nostalgic or dramatic, can we glean from Fran and Aunt Gert's ecstatic recapitulation of childhood rituals we never saw--when, indeed, this is Gert...
...dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that she proffered...
...read with pleasure your review of Gary Lindberg's The Confidence Man in American Literature [Dec. 28]. Surely you should have cited one of the most noteworthy examples of American con: Tom Sawyer lining up the young and unsuspecting to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence. Dale G. Haake Rock Island...