Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska and the state of Washington. In 1957 Painter married a fellow Anchorage reporter, Jeanne Bannister, despite Jeanne's parents' disapproval, and the couple lived and wrote together happily in Pullman, Wash. One day in 1962, while Painter stayed home tending Mark, his wife drove their daughter to nursery school; the car skidded on an icy road and Jeanne and the little girl were killed in a head-on crash...
...family finally sells the house, which the maids have started to tear apart. By this time, however, the girls have become hopeless psychopaths and proceed to murder their mistress and her lesbian daughter. The man who has just bought the house accuses the father of causing the tragic result. I, for one, can't figure out how he, as a newcomer on the scene, can make such an accusation. Papatakis presents these events with an absolute minimum of sentimentality; it's just the ugly, brutal story, starkly told, designed to make us shiver...
...Force One with him on the 11-hr., 4,946-mi. hop to Honolulu were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...
Carol Channing once jokingly called her "the world's greatest stage stepmother," and the lady herself, Denise Minnelli, would be the last to deny it. So when Liza Minnelli, 19, her husband Vincente's daughter by his marriage to Judy Garland, opened at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel there was Denise with a lustily applauding troop of 85 show-biz and cafesociety friends. Not that the gal who knocked them dead in Flora the Red Menace needed a private cheering section. After a dozen or so songs, that old belter Ethel Merman rushed over...
...loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years, ever since World War II ended. Dressed in a bedraggled German officer's uniform, he hurls things at a faded poster of Hitler, sips stale champagne...