Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, daughter, sister-in-law, niece and cousin of lawyers, and, I hope, the mother of two future ones, I am insulted, annoyed, disgusted, unhappy, mad and furious at your coverage of the state of the legal profession in America...
...come; so is Savvy (for women executives), but already there are Kosher Home and, for doctors' wives, Medical/ Mrs. ("A Steak that Holds at Rare for Three Hours"). Then there is the newsweekly Seven Days ("the magazine which is on your side") and the environment-minded Mother Jones ("for the rest of us"). In trying to reach freespending 18-to 34-year-olds, the New York Times (imagine this, Adolph Ochs!) ballyhoos Us, an imitation of People, as "journalism a new way-their way; lots of pictures, lots of fun, quick and easy for this brought...
...company, knew the young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
Gelsey marched on Dec. 29, 1952, in a Bethlehem, Pa., hospital. Her father Jack was a playwright who had scored handsomely as adapter of Tobacco Road for Broadway; her mother Nancy, a onetime actress, had retired from the stage to become Jack's fifth wife. A sister, Johnna, was nearly four when Gelsey was born; she has a brother, Marshall, 16 months younger...
...another is what holds our attention; their other problems--with men--are predictable and add little insight. Yet the capacity for comfort brought into the four-woman sessions is moving and believable. Erica's daughter Patty is a precocious (but hardly obnoxiously so), loving daughter who sides with her mother yet cannot reject her father. Old plot, new faces. Lisa Lucas's performance is well-honed, though, and the scene designed to make Erica's new lover (Alan Bates) feel uncomfortable and invading is particularly effective...