Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieces, written by Allegra S. Goodman '89, will be performed at the Leverett House Old Library Thursday and Saturday...
...Goodman, whose earlier play "Hester Meets Huck Finn" was presented at Lincoln Center last year as part of the Showcase for the National Advancement of the Arts, is also the director...
...first glance Nixon seems an unlikely subject, treated by an equally unlikely trio of Harvard graduates. Composer John Adams, 40, a minimalist of burgeoning popular appeal, had never written an opera before; Poet Alice Goodman, 29, had never written a libretto; and Director Peter Sellars, 30, was notorious for brassily upstaging the classics, setting Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem and Handel's Orlando partly on Mars...
...Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman was only ten years old when Nixon was elected and 16 when he resigned; now living in England, she brings a welcome apolitical detachment to her first major work...
Even so, there are good reasons why the First Lady may have proceeded as she did. For women with small breasts, lumpectomy may not offer a significant cosmetic advantage over mastectomy. And some women feel safer if the entire breast is removed. Says Goodman: "There are women who fear they will spend 23 hours a day worrying that the cancer may have returned if their breast is left intact...