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...nanny has an unobstructed view of the sometimes comic gap between a child's needs and a Chanel-wearing mother's idea of those needs. Mrs. X tells Nan that Grayer likes steamed kale and coquilles St. Jacques. On the rare day when he has no scheduled activity, "permissible nonstructured outings" include the French Culinary Institute, the Swedish consulate and the orchid room of the botanical garden (fun!). She brings in a "long-term development consultant" when Grayer doesn't get into his first school of choice. In short, they give him everything but their attention...
...novelists stress that there is no real Mrs. X, that the events are exaggerated versions of things that happened to them or people they knew and that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...
...drama, for that matter). It preserves the entire score of the show, along with great portions of the dialogue. The recording also boasts a particularly compelling cast. Though Patti Lupone’s thick British accent is less than endearing, the diva is in strong voice as the duplicitous Mrs. Lovett. Neil Patrick Harris, all grown up from his teenage doctor days, is endearing and sweet-voiced as Tobias, while Davis Gaines gives Anthony first-rate treatment with his lush baritone...
...Becoming a Writer, Dalsimer constructs a psychological portrait of Virgina Woolf by analyzing Woolf’s own work, fictional and non-fictional, and inferring Woolf’s emotional state from her writings. In weaving together analysis of Woolf’s major novels, To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, with excerpts from Woolf’s letters and diaries in which she describes her feelings at the time that she was writing, Dalsimer provides a solid framework for her subtle literary inferences. She draws on an impressive compilation of Woolf’s writings, from the weekly newspaper...
...lost her sister, father and brother as well. Dalsimer finds the recurring pain of these losses throughout Woolf’s writings, paying special attention to the way Woolf’s work deals with the death of her mother. Dalsimer sets the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay, the matriarch of the family in To The Lighthouse, and Lily Briscoe, the artist figure in the novel, as a paradigm for Woolf’s own relationship with her mother. In this way, Dalsimer is able to extrapolate and interpret the emotions that consumed Woolf throughout her development as a writer...