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...black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that her agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen out in clumps). The intricacies of this identity crisis are represented by her four selves: Patrice Lumumba, Jesus, Queen Victoria Regina, and the Duchess of Hapsburg, Except for one cruel scene between Sarah and her lover Raymond--a Jewish poet "who is very interested in Negroes"--the play is composed entirely of motion and monologue. Miss Teer's performance is magnetic, and this form permits her to hold the audience completely at times...
...maroon Rolls-Royce purred through the rainy evening to the London Clinic, and out stepped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 38. She had come to end a 28-year estrangement between the royal family and the owner of a grey Rolls parked opposite: the Duchess of Windsor, 68. In a fourth-floor sitting room, the two women, both dressed in properly cheerful red, met by the chair of Edward, Duke of Windsor, 70, sitting up for the first time in three weeks after a series of eye operations. What was said in 25 minutes-at the first meeting since Edward...
Harm's Way. With the coming of World War II, both duke and duchess made an effort to serve in the ranks. In the quiet months of the "phony" war, Wallis was with the French Red Cross and the duke tried to make himself useful at the British Military Mission at Vincennes. Perhaps to get them both out of harm's way, the duke was then made Governor of the Bahamas...
...house on the outskirts of Paris. Visits to Britain became more frequent, and the duke could call on the Queen - always alone. When Elizabeth was a child, the duke was her favorite uncle, and such he remains to both the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret. But for the duchess nothing changed. As before, she saw herself "confronted with a barrier of turned backs, rigid and immovable...
...Date. His latest public act is his latest novel. In 1963, Esquire announced that Mailer had undertaken to write a New Novel against monthly deadlines, the way Dickens used to write. The first installment, published two months after the assassination of President Kennedy, began in brisk damn-said-the-duchess style: "I met Jack Kennedy in November 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date . . . and I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz...