Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trust fund that Alexander and Christina will begin to enjoy on Dec. 11-provided Daddy Ari approves. Alexander has begun dismissing talk about Fiona as "nonsense," and Christina has gone off to London, leaving Husband Bolker at home to cancel the invitations he had sent out for her 21st birthday party...
...film version of Kurt Vonnegut's recent play Happy Birthday, Wanda June brings to the screen for the first time a widely read and respected writer. Since Happy Birthday, Wanda June is an especially inept movie, it would be comforting to report that Vonnegut has been victimized by the Hollywood barbarians, his work vulgarized beyond recognition. But it is not so. Vonnegut's own company (called, with inadvertent irony, Sourdough Ltd.) co-produced the film. His name appears in the traditional superstar's position above the title, implying not only box office eminence but a certain pride...
...United States: there is a depression; there is money or no money, female and male, race and class and jobs or no jobs: there was a war and there would be another war. Losing Battles took place on a long, hot, August day, the day of Grannie Refro's birthday, and the family reunion. Jack was home from jail and the lovers were reunited. But it reads more like a Walt Disney script than a novel. The superbly animated, soulful characters are little dei ex machina without any sort of reality to descend into...
...surrogate father to Bobby's eleven children, Ted visits Hickory Hill about twice a week. Occasionally he takes the older ones on sailing trips or camping overnight. Last week, on the 46th anniversary of Bobby's birthday, Joan, Ted and their children joined Ethel and six of her sons and daughters to visit R.F.K.'s grave at Arlington National Cemetery. This week the family makes the trip again to observe the eighth anniversary of Jack's death...
...regular cleaning woman and various fill-ins. But Joan pays all the family's personal bills, oversees both the McLean and Hyannisport homes, writes endless rounds of letters, and does such thoughtful chores as sending snapshots to parents of children who attend the three Kennedy youngsters' birthday parties. Such traits come naturally to the daughter of a prosperous New York ad executive. Raised in Westchester, she attended stylish Manhattanville College, where she majored in classical music and English literature...