Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play's first thoughtful, quiet moment, Tracey Thomas '00, plays, with an uncanny knack for whimsy and controlled grief, a daughter mourning her mother's death in the scene called "Glass Marbles." Search reappears for "Lamps," to become a graceful older woman captivated by the light of her lamp-filled apartment...
...Lupus has plenty of suggestions for Robin, asking her, "Why should you be anything less than perfect?" Robin looks disarmingly like Mia Farrow, with wavy hair and a disheveled Cantabrigian fashion sense. Things aren't looking too good for Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than ten minutes. She visits a professional whore (Bebe Neuwirth) for sexual advice. This unravels into a tasteless scene of two grown women simulating oral sex on bananas...
...true G. and S. style, is a convoluted tale of mistaken identities and star-crossed lovers that can only be understood when it is clearly and resoundingly sung by its main players. To summarize: it seems that years ago the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro had promised their daughter Casilda to an infant heir who was subsequently kidnapped but later found to be living as a gondolier in Venice. The operetta opens as the Duke and Duchess bring their daughter to Venice to claim her husband, only to find that not only is no one sure which...
...cure her case of alopecia, or baldness, commonly suffered by black women at the time because of scalp diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third husband, a newspaper sales agent named Charles Joseph Walker, and with him established a hair-care business that made brilliant use of advertising in the growing number of black newspapers...
Honest-to-goodness muckraking, though, was on the way. At McClure's weekly magazine, Ida Minerva Tarbell, daughter of a Pennsylvania oil producer who had been forced to eat dust by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, was making life hell for the wizened John D. with a 19-part series on Standard Oil that ran from 1902 to 1905. Her work, plus the reporting of a few other intrepid journalists, notably at the hotly competitive mass-circulation papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, became Teddy Roosevelt's big stick in his successful drive to bust...