Word: lavinia
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...ever read those really old books about girls' boarding schools? Grace Harlow or someone? There were a lot of them at a resort we used to go to. Anyway, there were always four girls. One beautiful and rich and wicked, and one big and fat and jolly. That's Lavinia and Peg, of course...
...horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed Comaneci and Szabo and now teaches Retton and Julianne McNamara, quietly watched the team ceremony two days earlier and listened to his old anthem from a doorway. "I coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls." Little Szabo looks like she would sooner fall off the balance beam than neglect eye shadow. When Retton was the winner...
...team quarters in the Olympic Village (and introduced each night to an ovation from the crowd), Rumania's women could never forget their legacy or fail to uphold it. Yet it was a burden they bore lightly. When one of the team's top performers, Lavinia Agache, 18, was asked if she wanted to be as good as Nadia, she replied, "Yes. I want to be better...
...Party." "But Mr. Henry had been saying, I think, that every minute is a fresh beginning, and Julia, that life is only keeping on; and somehow, the two ideas seem to fit together." The two halves of this perspective show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence of whiskey and potato crisps. Celia is absent from the second party; unable to accept the constraints of such...
...overall presentation. The combination of an interesting but unobtrusive set with sell-considered pacing and blocking keeps things lively, as when the action shifts to a different level of the set at the beginning of the second act. The blocking neatly reveals the relationship between Edward (Jon King) and Lavinia (Jody Barrett). During arguments they take opposite sides of the stage; each needs the other in order to know what his own, invariably opposing opinions is. By the end of the play, their physical awkwardness betrays their attempts and failures at closeness...