Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-length off-Broadway entry, Gemini, he seems most at ease behind the mask of comedy. The setting is a birthday-party reunion in a South Philadelphia backyard between Papa Geminiani (Danny Aiello), who proudly displays the stigmata of the lower middle class, and his 21-year-old Harvard-educated son, Francis (Robert Picardo). To make the culture gap wider, two of Francis' friends drop in unexpectedly from Cambridge, a brother-sister duo of unblemished Wasp credentials-or "white people" in Papa's olive-pure lingo. Francis goes into a panic of sexual ambivalence. The sister (Carol Potter...
...engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call on the day of a birthday party she was throwing for her year-old daughter Lara (Conductor José Serebrier is her husband). Says Farley: "I couldn't have asked for a better Met debut or a better opera production...
...afraid there is nothing else happening. There is a St. Patrick's Day parade today, because it is St. Patrick's Day. And that also means that it is Bill Ginsberg's birthday. It you see Bill on the street today, ask him about his shillelaugh...
...cousin Gwen Raverat in a family memoir describes Darwin on his fourteenth birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized...
...Year's Day is a good time to ponder one's fortune, since it is not only the first day of the New Year, but also one's birthday according to tradition. A person is considered one year old at birth, becoming two years old on the following New Year's Day. Thus a baby born on New Year's Eve is two years old in the Chinese system although he may only be a day old in the Western system of reckoning...