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...called my first doll Elizabeth, the quintessential American girl's name. Elizabeth was always my favorite name, the name I intended for my first child. We would call her Liza, though, to set her gently apart from the gaggle of Lizzies and Beths. But as I grow to understand my parents' reasoning in naming me, their logic makes more and more sense, and the chance that I would give my own child such a typical name fades...
...WINDUP DOLL...
Most people know that the composer of Take the "A" Train and Satin Doll and of orchestral suites like Such Sweet Thunder was Duke Ellington. But most people are wrong. The composer, or in many cases the co-composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
...waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action...and her body perfectly still. The same, somewhat unsettling demeanor marked her press conferences. At times she would walk about holding tight to a large doll. Asked how she felt about becoming the focus of world adulation, she deadpanned: 'It's nothing special. I feel just the same as before.' Did she ever think she might not win a gold medal? 'No, I knew that I would...
Holding a doll wearing a Harvard jersey, the mascot engaged in several very interesting actions. At one point, he threw the doll down, and he also took an axe and gave it a couple of whacks. Really funny stuff--a large part of the matinee crowd of 3,163 were children...