Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, as a descendant of a prominent Massachusetts family that included Emerson's fellow transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, Bucky in 1913 became a fifth-generation Harvard man. Within two years he had been thrown out twice -the second and final time for running off to New York to blow his semester's living expenses on dinner for the entire Ziegfeld chorus line...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead has hailed "An American Family" as "a new way in which people can learn to look at life, by seeing the real life of others." But the documentary fails to provide anything "new" except the idea of filming a real family. In fact, one wonders what the point of all this effort is. Real life is all around. We may expect more from television than "Leave It To Beaver" or "Days of Our Lives," but we also expect that if we won't be entertained, we will be enlightened. For all his skill, and luck, Gilbert shows...
...Margaret Lengyel of Boston* is one P.O.W. wife who has no interest in being in charge. "I'm ready to turn it over. The boss is coming home. I don't like having to make all the decisions." Even when Captain Lauren Robert Lengyel was shot down in August 1967, Margaret didn't expect to spend the next 5½ years raising four children by herself. "It is hard to be both Mom and Dad, especially with three boys." She expects Captain Lengyel to be one of the first to arrive home, but she says: "Even...
...heroine relates to the whole question mostly as a strategic matter of home economics. Barbra Streisand appears as Margaret Reynolds, an intermittently harassed mother of two and wife of an up-and-coming professor of political science at Columbia. For once Streisand dispenses with her ritual mugging and piercing line readings; her performance is generally subdued and rather good. The fact that she is never fully believable in the part is due largely to the mistake of casting a superstar as a woman who ought to be not quite anonymous but no more than average...
...says. "I can't get out what I hear in my head. What comes out is mellow and soft; yet what I try to achieve is an 'edge' to my voice." To her avid public in Britain, Europe and Australia (which includes Britain's Princess Margaret), a more apt description can be found on the working title of Cleo's newest album, which she was recording last week: I Am a Song...