Word: jessicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their country estate bored them, the Mitfords traipsed abroad, treating Europe as their private playground. As the advancing shadow of World War II put a stop to the fun, they turned their patrician self-assurance to extremist politics. Nancy wrote the inside story in autobiographical novels, while Diana and Jessica wrote novelistic autobiographies. Now Diana's son Jonathan Guinness and his daughter Catherine have added their account...
...Guinnesses are really too kind to mother and aunties with the forgiving explanation of their power-groupie behavior as "a need to link personal love to a general cause." As adolescents, Unity and her younger sister Jessica turned their rooms into political statements. Unity covered her walls with swastikas and a portrait of Hitler. Jessica decorated hers with hammers and sickles. They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until...
...Says a friend who has known him since 1975: "This is one immigrant who took immigration very seriously." He has applied for American citizenship and has no thoughts of returning to the Soviet Union. "I have an American child," he says, speaking of Shura, 4, his daughter with Actress Jessica Lange. "It still amazes me that she talks without a Russian accent. I thought it was genetic...
...their transformation into rakehells is both joyous and poignant. It is delicious to watch Ameche, 77, Cronyn, 73, and Brimley, 50 (but he can pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky's. But for the characters' wives and girlfriends (Gwen Verdon, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton), the spectacle is bittersweet. They realize that at any age, men must be boys, and women must be their sandbox playmates or their strict mothers. Some genders will just never grow...
...cream is a traditional Cambridge favorite and the local stores are even busier than during a usual June week. The children of reunion participants are brought into Harrell's 20 or 30 at a time by their counselors, says Jessica Leahy, the ice cream parlor's owner Herrell's too, is hiring extra scoopers to keep the kids from waiting too long...