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Another passage describes Margaret Mpanza, a 46-year-old Black woman who has worked as a maid since the age of 16. Mpanza lives with her white employers, 20 miles from the bantustan where her disabled husband and two grandchildren live. She is lucky to make it home twice a month...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Uncovering the Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...Even my grandchildren think I'm her. They say, "Nanny, I saw you on television and I didn't know you could sing,"' boasted Frazier...

Author: By Emily J. Ozer, | Title: Autograph Hounds, Fans-They All Come See Sills | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Come so that you can tell your grandchildren. "Yes, I saw the great Harvard women's basketball team...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Name That Column | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

Okay, maybe that won't impress your grandchildren. But you never know. And you won't even have the opportunity to say that unless you come to the games...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Name That Column | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...orchestra only once, neither he nor Conductor John Williams missed a beat, even when the audience interrupted the narrative with laughter and applause whenever O'Neill's eyebrows started moving con brio. Afterward the Speaker confessed that he had a private rehearsal at home, with his grandchildren prompting "Pop-Pop" whenever he flubbed a line. "It's been 30 years since I've read the poem," he twinkled in his best jolly-old-elf style. Is O'Neill perchance contemplating a stage career when he retires in 1986? "Naw," says the Speaker, "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1984 | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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