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...animals instead. Her family nicknamed her Mrs. Dolittle because of her love for creatures of all kinds. She trained as a zookeeper in California, and after earning a degree in animal behavior from Fordham University, Robin Silverman, 24, fulfilled her life's dream in February by becoming an animal keeper at the Bronx Zoo. She was known for her enthusiasm and expertise, which made what happened last week all the more inexplicable. At about 10 a.m., shortly before the zoo's Wild Asia exhibit was due to open, Silverman unlocked two doors and, along with Barbara Burke, 21, a volunteer...
...MOTHER'S KEEPER by B.D. Hyman Morrow; 347 pages; $17.95 Scandal began with the first motion picture, but the modern sharper-than-a-serpent's-tooth era can be traced to 1978 and the appearance of Mommie Dearest, the harsh memoir of Joan Crawford. My Mother's Keeper, by B.D. Hyman, is even more acrimonious. Joan Crawford was dead a year when the revenge was taken. Bette Davis is still alive and ticking. B. (for Barbara) D. (for Davis) Hyman declares that the front door is always open to her estranged mother. But only a masochist would enter after...
Physical catastrophes of old age, among them strokes and a mastectomy, follow like biblical punishments. If pity is contained in these pages, it is intended for the author, not her subject. B.D. now lives in the Bahamas, 3,000 miles from Hollywood, but My Mother's Keeper has distanced her even further from her mother, and from reticence and common decency...
...before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear up the field for junior varsity...
Cahow’s first collegiate lacrosse game was a trial by fire. With no game experience and barely any practice, she was Harvard’s sole option at keeper against No. 15 Penn...