Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Romance marks Oxenberg's acting debut, we have learned from numerous magazine and newspaper articles that she is no stranger to the ways of the upper classes. Related to both Charles and Prince Philip, she calls Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia "Mom" and is a cousin of Queen Sofia of Spain. The late Princess Marina of Greece, also known as the Duchess of Kent, was a great aunt. Hair trimmed and parted to the side Diana-style, Catherine hauntingly resembles the real-life queen...
Recounting her first exposure in her diary, she wrote: "All voices sounded like jabberwocky because they were so different," As she adjusted, however, she found that "I was able to understand my cousin despite the fact that he has a low voice and a mustache." Later, she rediscovered music: "I put Exodus on the stereo. So stirring was the music that I suddenly began to cry in an almost hysterical way. The beauty of the sound was almost torture-I simply couldn't get enough...
...fate of Salmo salar is linked to its peculiar life cycle. Like its larger cousin, the Pacific salmon, the Atlantic type hatches in fresh water. The parr, as the young fish are known, stay in their rivers until they reach a length of five to six inches, a process that may take several years. Then the salmon migrate to the sea and make their way to feeding grounds hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. Salmon that have spent several years at sea "run," or return to their native rivers, throughout the spring...
...during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous...
...Poetics of Plot and Genre" in classical Greek literature are gradually being rescued from oblivion by young linguists in the Soviet Union. But until the rescue is complete, Freidenberg, who died in 1955, will be remembered as the tough-minded and rigorous scholar who gave her inspired cousin a 44-year sampling of her critical intelligence. Her rigor melted only once, when she read Doctor Zhivago for the first time. She wrote Pasternak: "This book must be possessed rather than read, as a man does not read a woman but possesses her." -By Patricia Blake