Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grave, as if trying to reclaim something. He traveled around the country, but he never left home in any deep sense. Indeed, at the end, he hardly left his room. "Oh, God, son, please don't go, please don't die," his father Vernon wailed as Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie, 9, ran frantically around the house, trying to get into the bathroom where her father lay dead, yelling, "Something's wrong with my daddy, and I'm going to find...
Elizabeth Strout tests the strength of that umbilical bond in her first novel, Amy and Isabelle (Random House; 304 pages; $22.95). In the small New England town of Shirley Falls, Isabelle Goodrow is a single mother with a shameful secret: her daughter Amy, 16, is illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares...
Mother and daughter become rivals, and the balance of power between them shifts inexorably in favor of Amy as she, not Isabelle, discovers love. For Isabelle, it is painful recompense for what she considers a lifetime of sacrifice. Strout's insights into the complex psychology between the pair result in a poignant tale about two comings of age. Amy blossoms with a heady awareness of her sexuality. Meanwhile, Isabelle forgives herself the past, even as she faces its consequences: "It was bewildering to Isabelle. Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were...
...myself to say anything original. And the press release is the best part of the show slick and pretty and misleadingly promising. This is really because The Revels, a non-profit arts organization complete with mailing list and gift catalogne, founded in Cambridge by musician John Langstaff and his daughter Carol, has turned over 28 years into a serious establishment and tradition for Bostonside Christmas-celebrators...
...brisk walk every morning around Washington, striding out at his old soldier's pace while newsmen scrambled to keep up. He was a natty dresser, ate sparingly and never got overweight, loved a hand of poker and a good joke. He doted on his wife Bess and daughter Margaret, an aspiring concert soprano. His pleasures and his wants were simple. When his presidency was finished and he arrived back in Independence, Mo., reporters asked him on his first day home what he intended to do. "Carry the grips up to the attic:" he replied...