Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stunning or even competitive--but darlin'. An old-money wife in her peppy 70s describes her husband's "little log lodge," where "you can lie in bed at night and push the button and the roof opens up so you can see the stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often achieve the Galanos body. Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these...
...help a second-rung designer like Coveri scramble for first class ("She will be the ambassadress of my fashion," he announces), but it carries a whole portfolio of particular problems. Catherine Oxenberg, who still works as a model when she is not making regular appearances on Dynasty, is a daughter of Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia. "I'm lucky I don't have a title," she says. "Being a princess can work against her in an enormous way. A lot of people don't want a name, they want a face. If models are known too well, it detracts from...
...Mother's Keeper hit U.S. bookstores last week, Bette Davis, 77, became the latest Hollywood star to have her domestic skirts lifted by a disaffected daughter. Author B.D. (for Barbara Davis) Hyman, 38, depicts the legendary actress as an emotionally erratic, hard-drinking egomaniac who caters to her public at the expense of her family. Born to Davis during her third marriage (out of four), to Artist William Grant Sherry, Hyman reports that her mother tried in vain to see a copy of the manuscript prior to publication and fought the project furiously in phone calls and letters, saying...
...though he was only 17, and got into a man's worth of foolishness. Cute, though. All the girls said he looked just like Bobby Harron. You don't remember Bobby Harron? No, he'd be before your time. Oh, look, there's Lizzie with her little daughter Jenny. Poor Jenny, she got carried away in the flu epidemic of 1918. It killed more people than the Great War, didn't you know that? Nearly brought Lizzie's husband Horace to his knees. That's Horace there, out in front of his clothing store, and a fine, gentle...
...front, the people of Harrison wage a losing battle against influenza. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is anxious about being sent to the war; he sees conscription as desertion of his wife Lizzie (Hallie Foote), his infant daughter and the baby on the way. While Lizzie's winsome wastrel of a brother (Matthew Broderick) gets into trouble with gambling debts and a pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim to the flu. There is a death in the family, and a birth. In Harrison, though, life's scars are hidden...