Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Central Park, across Fifth Avenue from Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment,* a 42-year-old stock clerk named Angel Angelof waited inside a women's public lavatory. When Lilah Kistler, 24, a Pennsylvania physician's daughter who earned $80 a week walking dogs in the park, tied a Hungarian puli to the fence outside and walked into the lavatory, Angelof killed her with one shot from his bone-handled .45-cal. revolver...
Pauline Kael does not pass judgment aloofly; she puts herself into her reviews, revealing glimpses of her personal life to illustrate points in movies. Any discerning reader will pick up information on her friends, boy friends, ex-husbands (three), her 19-year-old daughter Gina, not to mention her feelings about other critics, which border on the unprintable. In her review of Hud, the footloose, amoral rancher played by Paul Newman, she berated her fellow reviewers for considering Hud a bad sort. To make the point that he was pretty typical, she compared him to her own father...
Born. To Hubert H. Humphrey III, 26, a University of Minnesota law student, and Lee Humphrey, 26: their second daughter; in St. Paul...
...that then housed such nouvelle vague cineasts as Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Truffaut proved so corrosive a critic that in 1958 he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival and forced to snipe at targets he could not see. What he could see, however, was Madeleine Morgenstern, daughter of a film executive whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided enough...
Only in the novel's apocalyptic last scene, in which he finds his artistic torch, does Author Weiss seem to recapture a literary fire. His hero's marriage is a failure, his two-year-old daughter has been deposited with his mother. His long way's journey toward his own identity leads him to Paris. And there one day, sitting in a wicker chair in a Left Bank cafe, he suddenly realizes that he can escape his perennial sense of personal and artistic vagabondage. By accepting the German language, "the language I had learned at the beginning...