Word: laura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cocoon of memories, deceiving herself about plans for the future, acting out an existence that is worse than old-fashioned--it is dead. She sparkles beautifully, like a jewelled kinetoscope, cascading through the same wistful images at the drop of a penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with the artifice of a rebel Donatello creating paens to an obsolete god of refinement and good living. Deserted by her husband, "a telephone man who fell in love with long distance," she is a "Christian martyr," a saintly hen, a charming and troublesome relic...
Amanda's mood swings precariously from the incomprehension of the distraught mother to the glee of the spooning debutante and Ames swings with her. Frustration and her anger singe the air as she peels her gloves commando-like, strutting lost in her own home, crying "Deception" at her daughter Laura, who has dropped out of secretarial school without posting notice. And her shivering silence after a bitter fight with her dreamer son, Tom, is wonderfully moving...
...company. Hughes optioned Da several years ago, plucking it off his agent's desk. When it came time to cast the national company (after winning a handful of Tonys on Broadway) he ensured that both his wife Helen--who plays Charlie's mother, Da's wife--and his daughter Laura--who acts the town tart--were cast alongside him. Their talent merits his nepotism. Indeed, only Tom Crawley's performance as the elder Charlie seems weak; more likely he simply is overwhelmed by Hughes...
...COLUMBIA at CORNELL YALE at PRINCETON LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE DAVID WILSON Harvard 20-7 Brown 21-14 Cornell 35-3 Yale 24-10 2-2 23-12. .657 MARK DIRECTOR Harvard 23-7 Brown 20-10 Cornell 44-10 Yale 33-17 3-1 21 14. .600 LAURA SCHANBERG Harvard 14-7 Brown 14-10 Cornell 24-12 Yale 30-14 2-2 20-15. .571 NELL SCOVELL Harvard 7-3.5 Brown 21-3 Cornell 14-log 3 Yale 28-TT Staff writer JOHN DONLEY '79 Sports editor emeritus Harvard 23-2 Dartmouth 21-20 Cornell...
...Crimson's Kelly Gately, St. Louis and Cecile Scoon all notched goals against the Tigers. Debbie Ching, who was totally frustrated by Harvard's Laura Mayer in the tournament final, scored the lone goal in Brown's second round match...