Word: infantalizing
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...born in Culver City, Calif., just a few blocks from the lot where Mad About You is filmed. But as an infant, Helen moved to Manhattan with her parents, director Gordon Hunt and Jane, a photographer. "I wasn't that movie-obsessed," Helen recalls. "We were at the theater all the time." For years she was just another out-of-work actress taking classes and studying her craft. Then she turned nine and got a job, as the blond pioneer girl in the 1973 TV movie Pioneer Woman. Even then, Helen had the mile-high forehead, perfect oval face...
From the moment that pianist Suzanne MacAllister stepped on stage and began to play "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly," the Radcliffe Choral Society impressed with its delivery and precision. In Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis in D," the women, under the direction of Marvin, achieved a beautiful blend of harmonies and melodic progressions. It is a difficult piece, but the group pulled it off with wonderful mastery--particularly in the "Sanctus," with its unusual layering of voices progressing up a scale. Alto soloist Kate Kraft acquitted herself well in this movement...
...they were delivered, each infant--Kenneth Robert (a.k.a. Hercules), then Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Brandon James, Nathan Roy and, finally, Joel Steven--was taken to an adjacent room, placed on a warmer bed and given a ventilator tube and an intravenous line; then each was moved to the intensive care unit at the Blank Hospital. All the babies were initially listed in serious condition, which is actually better than expected, considering they were 10 weeks premature. Joel was briefly downgraded to critical on Wednesday because of blood loss. But by evening he had rebounded...
Students expressed strong opinions on the unusual reversal of the murder verdict, with some believing Woodward's release was justified by her youth and innocence, and others finding the judge's decision--in which he acknowledged that Woodward played a role in the infant's death--overly lenient...
...case had swung dramatically in and out of Woodward's favor ever since she dialed 911 in February and said to the dispatcher, "Help. There's a baby. He's barely breathing." Shortly after the infant was taken to the hospital, police arrived at the home of Deborah and Sunil Eappen in Newton, Mass. Officers later said that the au pair told them she may have been "a little rough" with the baby, tossed him on a bed, and "dropped" him on some towels on the bathroom floor. In testimony, she denied making the statements. Woodward was arrested the following...