Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third-period goal on the end of a shorthanded breakaway in what would be Harvard's final win of this past season. It was in the finals of the Ivy League tournament against Princeton in February. "That was the greatest feeling of all time," Neilson says. "We were missing Lydia [Smith] and Burnsy [Christine Burns], and I just played out of my head...
SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
Must be the Maitlands -- Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) -- the ghosts of the house's previous owners, who died a while back and now reside in the attic. This nice postmortem couple is no happier than Lydia (Winona Ryder) to be trapped here with trendy Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and the unspeakable Delia (Catherine O'Hara). So the Maitlands have been trying to scare the Deetzes away. Sorry, kids. Go ahead and haunt these New Age parvenus; they'll just invite their friends to enjoy the kicky spectacle. The Maitlands need some serious help, perhaps from the lecherous demon...
...practices law and enthusiastically philanders. Audrey, 51, ensconced for the season and steadily tippling vodka in the privacy of her own bedroom, feels a bit edgy over the arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe implicit tensions. And everyone is looking forward to another...
...couple, John R. Levine and Lydia S. Spitzer, said they suspect intoxicated Harvard students may have stolen the gate from their Shepard St. home late Saturday night to use as a room decoration. The wooden gate is known by some in the Quad for its sign that reads, "Do not even think of parking here...