Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of the confession was brutal. Hillary spent several days in her room, talking only to her mother who was staying at a cabin in Pennsylvania, going to church and then meeting, along with Chelsea, with Jesse Jackson. One friend says the First Lady will rally to keep Kenneth Starr from prevailing but won't be out there waving the flag. "That old feeling has really suffered. She won't be getting over this for a very long time." Hillary has also taken to vigorous workouts. "She's so enthused about her state-of-the-art exercise equipment," says...
Love's all about professionalism, maturity and responsibility now. Yeah, sure, sometimes she'll go on MTV and rattle on about Trent Reznor's testicles. But the old Love, the bratty, tattered tart, is so over, so early '90s. Love started her image shift when she became a rock mother (daughter Frances Bean is six). She continued it when she became a movie star. She drew raves for her role in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, and is set to star with Christina Ricci, among others, in the forthcoming indie film 200 Cigarettes...
Born Love Michelle Harrison in San Francisco in 1964, Love has led a rootless life. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother later gave her the new first name Courtney; she eventually started calling herself Courtney Love. She has lived in Liverpool and Dublin; she has slogged through reform schools and stripped in strip clubs. Skin starts off self-consciously, with Love reveling in her notoriety. "I'm all I wanna be," she wails. "A walking study/ In demonology." Certain images repeat: angels, stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death...
...Letitia Davenant, wife of Thaddeus and mother of a 4 1/2-month-old daughter named Georgina. It was Letitia's inheritance that allowed her husband to refurbish his ancestral home, Quincunx House in Essex, to its former splendor. Before he married her, Thaddeus had been reduced to selling local markets the produce he grew on his property. So he is grateful to Letitia but harbors a pained secret that occurs to him again on the afternoon of her death: "It was his considerable loss, Thaddeus was every day aware, that he did not love his wife...
...this should have been so is but one of the mysteries that Trevor, with remarkable artistry and economy, introduces and then solves in Death in Summer. Letitia's death raises a practical problem: how to care for the infant daughter. Mrs. Iveson, Thaddeus' mother-in-law, suggests that he advertise for a nanny and agrees to help him interview the applicants. Four young women eventually arrive at Quincunx House, none of them found suitable for the post by Mrs. Iveson. She then volunteers to sublet her London apartment and take over Georgina's upbringing herself. Reluctantly, Thaddeus consents...