Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judge Turpin (Adam Wolman), who framed him in order to steal away Sweeney's wife. He starts up his barbershop again above the pie shop of his old landlady, Mrs. Lovett (Rhonda Edwards), who tells him that shortly after his exile, Sweeney's wife poisoned herself, and his infant daughter Joanna became Turpin's ward...
...their facts may be new to even well-informed readers. For example, they confirm the rumor that Harvard Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill, daughter-in-law of the Speaker, seriously considered a bid for Congress. They tell us that the Kennedy campaign bought 320 dozen donuts for 2000 precinct workers on primary day. We learn that Tom Gallagher had three separate encounters with Cambridgeport pit bulls during his effort to knock on nearly every door in the district. We also learn that Jim Roosevelt's heart wasn't in the "shrill" tactics his advisors...
...Chinese Youth, for example, depicts an obese child lying in a bed littered with toys, stuffing himself with cakes and milk served by Mother, while Father stands ready to dress him. In his column in the China Daily, Xu Yihe writes disapprovingly of Jiajia, a friend's pampered daughter who barely budges to prepare for school in the morning. While Jiajia sits on her bed, says Xu, "her mother combs her hair, her grandmother feeds her breakfast, her grandfather is under the table putting her shoes on, and her father is getting her satchel ready." Single children are well aware...
...great relationship." It never improved: Sondheim has helped his mother financially but has gone through long periods of not speaking to her, and regales friends with darkly comic tales of her attempts to rile him -- making mementos of his shows, for example, but pointedly omitting the flops. Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard Rodgers and one of Sondheim's oldest friends, describes Sondheim's propensity for writing "eloquent, deliberately mean, really hooty little thank-you notes," and quotes a sample: "Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head? Love, Steve...
George Bush's recently published as-told-to autobiography, Looking Forward, illustrates a candidate's natural reluctance to psychoanalyze himself. Bush devotes two pages to describing the harrowing death of his three-year-old daughter Robin from leukemia in 1953. But when it comes time to sum up what this tragedy meant to him, all Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences...