Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Head!" The teens were a bit gritty for both the Redgrave girls, particularly for Vanessa. Her father once introduced her to friends as "my daughter Vanessa?she'll never be an actress, so we're having her do languages. That way she can always get a job with an airline or something." She grew like a beanstalk on a hill of hormones. One day, after staring appalled at her reflection, she broke into tears and telephoned her mother, who was weekending in the country. "Mummy! Mummy!" she cried, "I just looked in your mirror...
Married. Gary Lewis, 21, eldest of Comedian Jerry Lewis' six children, a successful rock 'n' roll singer in his own right; and Sara Jane Suzara, 22, daughter of the chief pilot of Manila harbor, whom Gary met while on tour in the Philippines; in Westwood, Calif...
...also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built a new life on deception; Hjalmar has married, without knowing that his wife was once the mistress of his benefactor Werle, or that his daughter may in fact be Werle's child. Lt. Ekdal, the father, finds happiness in hunting, even though the only animals he hunts are tame rabbits in an attic...
...Adams House the symbolism is suitably accented. Whenever a character should chance to mention the wild duck, he does so in deeply serious tones. And when Hedvig, the Ekdals' daughter, talks about the duck and the dog which fetched it out of the water, she talks as if, yes, true insight is something known only to youth...
Alan Richards, as young Ekdal, is on the verge of a well-formed characterization. He has the arrogance and naivete down pat; what he lacks becomes obvious in the last act, when Ekdal must react to his daughter's death. Richards' only reaction is to raise his voice, which gives quantity but not quality to his emotion...