Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small Ndebele tribe which came under the "protection" of the Boers when they were threatened by the warlike Zulus. Says Van Tonder: "My people saved the Ndebele from extermination." Last weekend there was a three-day feast and tribal dancing in honor of Mahlangu's 13-year-old daughter, who was welcomed into adulthood by delegations of Ndebele from nearby farms and villages. The Mahlangus' house of thick adobe, which has running water but no electricity, had been exuberantly painted in bold white-and-yellow designs. Two oxen and four goats from Mahlangu's herd had been...
...friend (Shirley MacLaine) may have been as talented, but she married, had children, is running a ballet school in Oklahoma. Shirley has always wondered whether she too might have been famous if she had stayed on with the Company-collectively portrayed by the American Ballet Theater. Meantime, her daughter (Leslie Browne) has grown into a talented dancer, and when the Company comes to town she is offered a place with it. Mother and daughter head for Manhattan, where the girl's rise is meteoric even by movie standards of 40 years ago: she shortly has the starring role...
...come to terms with some unresolved issues. Bancroft, a would-be mentor, must fight through her resentment of youth and that freshness of talent for which no amount of hard-won skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown fight on the theater steps...
BORN. To Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 26, a law student at the University of New Mexico and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, and David Townsend, 29, teacher of Greek at St. John's College: their first child, a daughter, and Rose Kennedy's first great-grandchild; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Name: Meaghan Kennedy Townsend...
BORN. To Marisa Berenson Randall, 30, jet-setting actress (Barry Lyndon, Cabaret), and James Randall, 33, a rivet manufacturer: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Starlite Melody...