Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a childhood accident. Walker lost the sight in one eye, and writes that she felt disfigured and ugly for a long time afterward. It is through the bond with her daughter, her own creativity, and the strength she has found from the stories of her (female) ancestors. Walker writes, that she has finally learned to accept herself as complete and even beautiful. She dedicates the book to her daughter. Rebecca, in a few lines that sum up the creative process through which she has discovered herself and her heritage...
...casual reference to Chernenko's daughter is all that is known about her to this day. Somewhat more information is circulating about the rest of his family, although it is hard to know how much is fact and how much is the work of Soviet mythmakers. The name of Chernenko's wife is Anna Dmitrievna. She is in her 60s and is apparently in good health. She is said to love the theater and the cinema, and on occasion has arranged private screenings of Soviet movies for other Kremlin wives. Chernenko's son Vladimir, who is in his late...
...Witt, the arguments ended, for here was a skater of both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...
...stage's most adroit neorealists, Marsha Norman. She won her reputation with the 1979 drama about a woman's leaving prison, Getting Out, and last year received the Pulitzer Prize for 'Night, Mother, a mundanely detailed conversation over cocoa and marshmallows between a daughter who intends to commit suicide and a mother desperate to stop her. Now, in Traveler in the Dark, Norman has turned away from the art-as-life style and has crafted a witty, eloquent, far-ranging and altogether too clever play...
DIED. Anna Anderson Manahan, 82, who spent 62 years trying to prove that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and only survivor of the 1918 execution of the Russian imperial family at Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk); of pneumonia; in Charlottesville, Va. Contending that she survived the slaughter by hiding behind one of her dead sisters, "Anastasia" was rejected as an impostor by Romanov relatives. She married Historian John E. Manahan in 1968. Her life became the subject of many books and was the basis of the movie Anastasia...