Word: cara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan's Upper West Side, it is now suffering from the not-so-benign neglect of the landlord. Margaret Mary's chief joy and solace is playing the piano, mostly Strauss and Chopin waltzes in tandem with a violin-playing "maiden lady" of about 50 named Cara Varnum (Dorothy Lou-don). Both actresses "fake" their instruments stylishly...
...good soul, sexually repressed but with a quirky sense of humor, Cara would like nothing better than to move in with Margaret Mary for mutual care and companionship. With aloof hauteur, the widow indicates, as only Hepburn could, that Cara is non-U. Selfish, highhanded, unfeeling, Margaret Mary takes in a different roommate. Robin Bird (Regina Baff), a woman of about 30, is a Brooklyn sparrow with a broken wing. She has been wounded by her husband, who divorced her to turn homosexual. Robin brings out the possessive mother-tyrant in the widow, but in return Margaret Mary goads...
...Class Zero" puzzles me. While Mr. Mazumdar seems to draw on his own experience as a dishwasher to portray his fellow worders as rather dehumanized by their work, the overall effect is to mock these people. One has the impression that the author's real concern is not that Cara, Gregory and Jim have boring jobs, but that he should be forced to sully himself with their company. I recall one of my professors at this university who, although known as a great liberal and humanist, once blasted the entire population of South Boston as idiots and cretins because...
...CARA APPROACHED the counter, did a pirhouette while screaming, "Can I have some more silvuh-way-uh please?" Buddy backed off a bit, allowing his paunch some room to move, brushed his hair back and wiped the sweat off his forehead; Jim, the boss, whistled "Lonely is a man without love" for maybe the twentieth time since the morning, picked up a butcher's knife and snapped the links holding a strand of sausage together...
...most exciting aspect of the conference is "pretending you're in the real world," Cara B. Seidman '81, president of the International Relations Council, the undergraduate organization which sponsors the conference--said yesterday...