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...write about how hard it is for professional women to be moms. She planned to do a book celebrating women turning 50 at the millennium and to look at what forces had shaped their lives. Then she discovered, in interview after interview with college deans and opera divas, a cross section of successful women in various fields, that none of them had children--and few of them had chosen to be childless. Many blamed themselves for working too hard and waiting too long--and waking up to the truth too late. "When I talked to these women," she recalls, "their...
...nine- and 10-year-olds were not only watching “90210,” but also calling it their favorite show. Every Wednesday for 10 years, impressionable youngsters were shown everything parents don’t want their kids seeing: sex, violence and drinking. Making a soap opera designed specifically for a younger crowd is a little like using Joe Camel to sell cigarettes to teenagers and I have no doubt that creator Aaron Spelling aired the show for no other reasons than further fame and fortune...
...Franks and his staff to be wearing combat boots and fatigues while sitting around their air-conditioned offices?" asked a Floridian. "Are they expecting to be rushed to the front?" An Arizonan noted, "The camouflage uniforms and combat boots 7,700 miles from the front lines smack of comic opera and macho imagery. Franks and his men appear ready to pick up arms and meet the enemy!" And a Kentucky reader gibed, "It looks almost as if they're 'playing war' in their parents' living room...
DIED. EILEEN FARRELL, 82, unassuming soprano who defied opera elitists by forging a pop career; in Park Ridge, N.J. Some 20 years after receiving her own radio show in the 1940s, Farrell debuted at the Metropolitan Opera. She later recorded the chart-topping pop album I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues...
Certainly, Titus fit the bill: an opera of horror and gore which features human sacrifice, gang rape, loping of limbs and feasts of filial sweetbreads. With the play, young Shakespeare scored a hit, proving that Elizabethan audiences were at least as bloodthirsty as the groundlings that hound present-day cineplexes...