Word: childhoodâ
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...remark is made with airy irony, but the fact is that she went through an ugly-duckling stage in late childhood???glasses, fat cheeks, permed hair and a bossy, show-offy disposition, as she recalls it. "She was pretty ghastly," admits her younger brother "Third" (Harry Streep III), 30, a modern dancer who heads the Third Dance Theater in Manhattan. It was by no means a terrible childhood, Streep says now. The family lived comfortably in a succession of pleasant New Jersey towns. Harry Streep II was a pharmaceutical company executive, and his wife Mary Louise a commercial artist...
...house in Hampstead and a ski chalet in the Swiss Alps. His sons by the previous marriage, Simon, 20, Stephen, 17, and Timothy, 14, are frequent visitors, irrevocably tied to the man who confesses himself "a soppy father." The close relationships are an open repudiation of his own deprived childhood???and of the father who died in 1975 without a reconciliation...
...serpents, of course, plead extenuating circumstances. Some men hate mixed-doubles play and endure it only when caught. "You could play it in your tuxedo," says one. Why? Because, so the argument goes, women are slow. Another excuse is that most women had a deprived childhood???i.e., they did not get to throw a ball much, which plays hob later with the motion needed for a good serve. Some men will blandly generalize, in the face of all history, that women lack that killer will to win. Others will argue that unlike men, who in doubles usually feel ashamed...
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