Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash-based passion may be superior to a condescending paternalism. The Heiress is a play of bleak and haunting subtleties...
...business. A standing-room-only crowd of 1,700 watched as nearly 100 models and dancers cavorted on a multilevel stage. He had the finest flowering of supermodeldom, plus drop-ins by former Hitchcock star (The Birds) Tippi Hedren-one of whose gowns was decorated with feathers-and heiress Patty Hearst. Mugler is about the only person left who presents corsets and bustiers, but at least he made them sexy...
...another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks for shoplifting. Some of the cousins will embrace penitential political correctness, the noblesse oblige of overcompensating elites. Everything -- power, glory, wealth, dignity -- will be ground down at last to the merely human and the occasionally scandalous. The family no longer breeds giants, just threadbare eccentrics...
...ours," he says. "That's what is so much fun for me: I'm stealing their stuff." He has occasionally steered away from overtly African-American subjects: Under the Double Moon (1989) is a science-fiction adventure about telepathic twins; Tania retells the story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. Both operas demonstrate Davis' sure confidence with harmonic and melodic techniques that combine elements of both black and European tradition. "I didn't want to be boxed in, and it was necessary for my development to feel free," says Davis. "I can apply the African-American sensibility...
INVESTIGATIONS: The Heiress and the Horses...