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Secret of Success. The absence of milk during the first few days after childbirth may be due to nothing more than fear, worry, tension. "The arrival of a mother-in-law can dry up milk within hours. Physical strain, especially lack of sleep, is equally harmful," says Dr. Grossman in GP. Yet "the greatest enemies of naps are the mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more...
Anatomizing Mother-in-Law. Rivers started out as a jazz musician. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, plays the saxophone with a jazz combo called the Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even...
...masters are my favorite painters." Manet's famous Déjeuner sur I'Herbe, in which nude models picnic contentedly with their fully dressed and well-known men about Paris, particularly attracted him. Rivers decided to achieve the same shock value; he persuaded his elderly mother-in-law, Berdie, to pose for 20 exacting, and mostly nude, examinations of anatomy. The result was almost as great a scandal as Washington...
Then Chambers' mother-in-law, Mme. Rene, his wife, and his daughter Conny become succubi--a group of seductive demons who have usurped the place of a weakening Deity. Mary is a priestess, and Jay Samson, another law student who is living in the house, is a lost soul who has surrendered to evil. Jean Rene, Mme. Rene's husband, is an old soldier who detests Chambers' (or God's) aversion to violence. Now we have every character in the play crammed into a neat, symbolic, gift-wrapped package, with Wake's last words as a decorative bow: "Where...
...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ginger Rogers stars as the wicked and dangerous mother-in-law of a new bride (Carol Lawrence). Color...