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...orphan, Frances was adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that...
Howe has always had an ear for plausible conversation and a keen eye for the elegiac beauty of the everyday. Blending them with the subtly magical in Approaching Zanzibar at last relieves her work of a seeming pettiness and dullness. In the production that opened off-Broadway last week, she is aided by a superb cast, including Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin as the parents and Bethel Leslie as the dying aunt -- all established stars who delicately avoid star turns -- and the exceptional Clayton Barclay Jones and Angela Goethals as the children. Heidi Landesman's brilliantly simple sets fill...
...struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers % of her daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz Jr., both of whom got started on Here's Lucy...
...What excites me about Houghton Library is that it matches my interests so closely," Wendorf added. "I have a keen interest in all parts of this fantastic institution...
History has played few tricks with as many odd twists and turns as the U.S.'s imperial adventure in the Philippines. In his first book since Vietnam: A History, journalist and historian Stanley Karnow chronicles 90 years of the U.S.'s relationship with its former colony with a keen eye for such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo...