Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-conscious daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Together they were one of America's first celebrity couples in a media-crazy century. With his encouragement, she wrote memoirs of their life that made her one of the country's most popular and famous diarists. Early in the relationship, as Anne wrote ecstatically in 1928, when the couple were "together, alone--all gold, that extra golden bloom over everything!" But, as Lindbergh's biographer A. Scott Berg writes, "their 'storybook romance,' as the press always presented it, was, in fact, a complex case history of control and repression, filled...
...what a strange kind of love it was. His letters to her reveal a Peter Pan with urgent needs for a dynamic, motherly woman. He pleaded for her love like an infant; she lectured back on behavior and "being your best." Theirs was a mother-son relationship, "psychical rather than sexual," wrote Winston Churchill. But to the Prince, the financially beset social climber was "the perfect woman." And David, as Wallis always called the man who would not be King, insisted to the end that they had never been lovers before they married...
...breasts would topple empires before they withered...she was the most sullen, uncommunicative and beautiful woman I had ever seen," said Richard Burton in 1953 of his first look at Elizabeth Taylor. Nine years later, while married to others, he and she began a relationship that enraged the Vatican and caused the gainful employment of hundreds of paparazzi. On the set of Cleopatra, what Liz and Dick called le scandale just went on and on. The public saw them in bathing dishabille, in drunken brawls and other feats of extreme behavior...
...darkness is overturned and made more complex by the fact that she often wavered between moods. Upon every reading, something different, and even contradictory to previous reactions, stands out. I remember when I first read the book at age 12, what seemed most important to me was the relationship that Anne shared with her father. At 15, it was her friendship with Peter and her burgeoning sexuality. At 16, when I portrayed Anne on Broadway, it was her flaws--vanity, overexcitability and quickness to fight--that interested me the most. And now, upon my most recent perusal just weeks before...
...election of the first female Undergraduate Council president led a wave of campus activism, and the arrival of a new dean of the College inaugurated a changed relationship between students and the adminstration...