Word: susannah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Festival jurors (among them Actress Susannah York and Indian Director Satyajit Ray) insisted Apocalypse split honors with The Tin Drum, an adaptation of the Günter Grass novel by West German Director Volker Schlondorff (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum). It was the first time since 1973 that the Golden Palm had been awarded to two films. Some boos and jeers greeted the announcement of the decision. Cynics also noted Apocalypse did not have to contend with two popular films, Woody Allen's Manhattan and Milos Forman's Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition...
...architects of the evening's comic chaos are a fourth couple, Trevor (Stephen Moore) and Susannah (Delia Lindsay), a pair of neurotic, egocentric twits who have the instincts of termites when it comes to reducing their friends' relationships to rubble. Trevor yearns to "communicate" though he cannot finish a simple declarative sentence, and Susannah gives herself pep talks on self-confidence with the assurance of a snowball crossing the equator...
...explosive offstage marital squabble between Trevor and Susannah wrecks Malcolm and Kate's party. After that the cancerous couple metastasizes. Susannah flees to the bedroom of Ernest and Delia, Trevor's parents, and gives Delia a hysterical display of the nocturnal hoo-ha's. Trevor cadges 40 winks on a sofa at Nick and Jan's, an excruciating indulgence, in Nick's helpless view, since Trevor had once been Jan's lover...
...Susannah L. Sherry '80 lives in Winthrop House...
...part of Africa), she was brought to America by a slaver in 1761. She was then seven or eight years old, by the estimate of John Wheatley, a prosperous Boston tailor, who bought the thin little waif with the idea that she should be trained to attend his wife Susannah. In a testimonial letter to the publisher, Wheatley writes: "Without any assistance from school education, and by only what she was taught in the family, she, in sixteen months time from her arrival, attained the English language . . . to such a degree, as to read any, the most difficult parts...