Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripides, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War led him to offer up the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives modern force to an ancient tale...
Daddy thought it would be nice to give his only daughter a christening present-a painting, say, like the 16th century Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach. And since Daddy was Nazi Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring, the city of Cologne thought it prudent to turn over the priceless painting. Daughter Edda Göring, now 29, has more or less owned the Madonna ever since, though last week she lost another round in her court fight to keep from returning the painting. Edda's lawyers have already slipped and dodged for 18 years, and she has two appeals left...
Father (Alan Webb) is a curmudgeonly tyrant nearing 80, marching with faltering step and bristling temper into his pitiable dotage. He has sapped the life out of his wife (Lillian Gish), bullied his middle-aged son (Hal Holbrook) into something resembling psychic impotence, and barred his door to a daughter (Teresa Wright) because she married a Jew. Except for the sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries...
...mania for collecting is a transitory phase of childhood. But for a few, the habit becomes a lifelong obsession. For Manhattan Art Dealer Sidney Janis, it began with hoarding marbles during his boyhood in Buffalo, and led to a perceptive collection of 20th century art. For Anne Kinsolving Brown, daughter of a Baltimore minister, the impetus came from a book on soldiers that she spied in a toy store at the age of nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave new world...
...consists of little beyond a set of circumstances; their resolution is eminently forgettable, but the circumstances are these: a rich American arrives in Rome to fetch his car-crashed father's body, and finds that his father was with a woman when he died, and that the woman's daughter is in Rome too, on the same errand. You can take it from there, but you don't really have to. A third character--a friendly bisexual Italian parasite--serves as catalyst for most of the play's inaction, and as the subject of almost all its laughs...