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...night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail of bullets. Next night, 50 armed men searched the home of Salvador Rivera Hernandez, 39, in a working-class suburb of San Salvador. They marched Rivera and his wife into the street and shot them dead. Later in the week, a pickup truck carrying...
...turns Verlaine (David Markay) violent and makes Rimbaud (Nicky Silver) into a satanic enfant terrible. Transforming his mentor into his slave, Rimbaud pries Verlaine loose from his wife and son. The rest of their tempestuous saga is fairly accurately chronicled in the production at off-Broadway's La Mama Theater. The play is flawed, but it is amazing that British Playwright Hampton (The Philanthropist) wrote it when he was only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine is the more richly shaded portrayal...
...however, and before the century was into its teens, Colette was writing modern classics under her own name. Her confidence, her courage and her determination undoubtedly came from her mother, whom she worshiped, and one of the most poignant passages occurs just after that admirable woman's death: "Mama died the day before yesterday. I don't want to go to the burial. I shall wear no visible mourning, and I am telling almost no one. But I am tormented by the stupid notion that I shall no longer be able to write to her as I always...
...Nancy couldn't be more delighted, and thinks he's absolutely handsome." Perhaps reasonably handsome would be more like it. The 6-ft., 235-lb. Brady has the type of balding, boyish looks that could best be appreciated as cute and huggable by, well, a Mama Bear. No doubt he was chosen less for his physique than for his professional credentials: in the years since he got his 1962 B.S. in communications and political science at the University of Illinois, Brady has worked for the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the OMB, the Pentagon, Delaware Senator William Roth...
Naturally he evoked the image of spunky Mama Lillian, cackling at her boy over the phone that she couldn't talk "until the ball game was over" on television. "Just as young as ever," according to her proud son, the wrinkled first mother hasn't lost a step in the last 14 years, since she went to India for the Peace Corps at age 68. Next, Carter praised Rose Kennedy, the 90-year-old Massachusetts matriarch, who he said "epitomizes the meaning of a family and the meaning of faith." Nods and smiles all around, from young and old, both...