Word: hearths
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...wind was whipping through the white tents at the Head of the Charles Regatta’s Reunion Village this weekend, and somehow the footage of hearth flames displayed on the HD flatscreen in the concessions area didn’t seem to be making it any warmer...
...Goddess of the Hearth Betty Friedan, the feminist author whose book The Feminine Mystique ignited the women's rights movement, died last month at age 85. Friedan exploded the myth of the happily homebound suburban mother, whose claustrophobic world TIME portrayed in a June 20, 1960, cover story...
...Millington Synge. He’s long dead, to be sure, but Spillane-Hinks did everything she could to bring him back to life as the sole occupant of his small island hut and the curator of the museum now housed there. Spillane-Hinks spent her time lighting the hearth and leading tours, immersing herself in the Irish culture she’d been studying at Harvard since her sophomore year. Her name, to reiterate, is Aoife. Pronounced “EE-fah,” it’s quite possibly the most unusual name in the senior class...
...sorcery of the oppressed. In this sprawling banquet of a romantic Mexican melodrama, forbidden love finds the recipe for fulfillment -- even if it takes a lifetime and beyond. Screenwriter-novelist Laura Esquivel and her husband, director Alfonso Arau, capture a savory passion that comes straight from the hearth...
...been staged on Broadway by the same director, Michael Blakemore, with a new and mostly American cast. It builds slowly into a brilliant exposition of the troubled relationship between the elite and the masses, both in the broad public arena and in the narrow but fierce politics of the hearth. Sam Waterston portrays a young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays...