Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Happy Birthday...
Sissela Bok, lecturer on Medical Ethics, agreed that seeing her family together for Christmas would be an ideal present. But she added that she's just finished celebrating her birthday, "so Christmas seems very far away...
...imbued with the super-natural: in the cemetary that overlooks the town, a host of the dead assemble to discuss life. One of the dead, a woman named Emily, barters with the play's narrator for the chance to watch herself relive one day of her life, her twelfth birthday. The experience drains, even tortures her, and she shakes much the way we shiver when watching films of John Kennedy. Not only is Emily helpless to change the past, but her warm memories of childhood are blown cold as she watches her own young ghost let priceless moments lapse unnoticed...
...Happy Birthday...
...people who turned out for a party honoring Louise Nevelson got a twofer. It was the famed sculptress's 80th birthday, and she was also being saluted by New York's Municipal Art Society as a champion of urban art. Nevelson steadfastly refused to blow out the 80 candles, saying, "Let them burn and burn and burn." They...