Word: caged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour every month, even as his health declined and he suffered from dizzy spells, Hess met with his wife Ilse, now 87, or his son. No touching was permitted, and a chest-high partition separated the prisoner from his family. "I would never again put a bird in a cage," Hess once wrote his wife. "Only now do I fully understand why the Chinese and Japanese, when fate is especially kind to them, buy a bird, open the door of the cage and let him fly away. One day I will do this...
...Hess's case, the cage will also vanish. The four wartime Allies announced last week that Spandau would be demolished to keep it from becoming a shrine for Nazi sympathizers. Britain, which administers the sector of West Berlin that includes Spandau, plans to build a supermarket and an entertainment center on the site. The new facilities will cater to the 4,000 British service members and their families whose presence in West Berlin remains one of the legacies of Hitler's thousand-year Third Reich...
DIED. George William ("Fritz") Holt III, 46, co-producer of the Broadway smash La Cage aux Folles (now in its fourth year) and the 1974 revival of Gypsy; of complications from pneumonia; in Montclair, N.J. Holt also staged last month's 100th birthday salute to Showman George Abbott...
...Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, maybe a movie version of Dreamgirls. Meanwhile, her family will keep Whitney well protected. Her brothers run interference for her on tour; Robyn offers support and palship; John promotes and shields the family star. Still, Dad must wonder when the cocoon becomes a cage. Last year, after a concert in London, Whitney joined the crew at the local Hippodrome. "I was nervous," he recalls. "At one point I spotted her on the dance floor. 'Guess what, Daddy,' she said, 'I've been dancing!' And she proceeded to dance until 4 in the morning. I almost...
...Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which . . . put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage . . . Indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes. Neither slaves nor women could hold office, serve on juries, or bring suit in their own names . . . It is true, of course, that the position of women . . . has improved markedly in recent decades. Nevertheless, it can hardly...