Word: trauma
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...penalize" the law. Unless they did, pro-abortion groups had the 500,000 signatures necessary to force a national referendum on the issue. Still reeling from the impact of a successful divorce referendum in 1974 that divided and nearly shattered his party, Moro hoped to avoid a comparable trauma with a compromise bill softening the present...
...President's Men had every prospect of failing big. Since work began on it three years ago, it has been, as its screenwriter of record, William Goldman, says, "the biggest gossip picture since The Godfather." There was hazard, if not a touch of hubris, in turning a national trauma into a mere movie?and so quickly too. The film would be released before the nation's emotions had dried into something like a sober historical perspective. Moreover, the driving force behind the project was not an intellectually favored film maker of international repute?a Bertolucci or a Costa-Gavras. Instead...
Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
...World Turns, the quintessential "coffee table" drama that is all talk. The tent-pole characters?good, decent people on whom a plot may safely be hung ?are Chris Hughes, a lawyer, and his wife Nancy. They are a sixtyish couple living out their days in trauma. Their...
...second trauma was his elder sister Rose's prefrontal lobotomy in 1938, one of the earliest performed in the U.S. In some fundamental way, Rose was Tennessee's muse, the "White Goddess," in Robert Graves' term, who inspired him to write. She, of course, is the crippled Laura of The Glass Menagerie. But his mother, whom he calls "Miss Edwina," has been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee...