Word: vanessa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totally deranged and eventually was institutionalized. A half brother, George Duckworth, was a handsome lout who began molesting Virginia when he was 19 and she was six. She had two full brothers, Thoby and Adrian, whose departure for the nation's best schools she bitterly resented, and one sister, Vanessa, who was easily the person closest to her throughout her life...
...certificate of sanity." With increasing assurance, she began using in conversation the marvelous gifts of perceptiveness that mark character studies like Mrs. Dalloway. Perhaps the culmination of her public life occurred in 1928 when she gave the Cambridge lectures that became A Room of One's Own. Vanessa remembered it as a noisy triumph. Ironically, the book is probably the most read of Virginia's works today. A witty and even-tempered polemic on sexual inequality, it is a basic text of the Women's Liberation movement...
...about the same time, a diary entry reads, "I watch. Vanessa. Children. Failure. Failure, failure. (The wave rises)." She became again more unstable, and around her tragedy recurred. Vanessa's son Julian went to fight in Spain and was killed. Strachey died. When the World War II bombings began, both Virginia's and Vanessa's London houses were among the first to be demolished. In 1941 Virginia began to hear the hideous voices again...
Anne of the Thousand Days--A boring re-enactment of the Ann Boleyn-Henry VIII conflict that's inaccurate to boot. Genevieve Bujold's Anne, however, is lovely, and almost makes the film worth seeing. With Loves of Isadora, a mess, but a showcase for Vanessa Redgrave's great talent. ORSON WELLES CINEMA, Call...
...Pain--As Blind Men learn the Sun!" and reminds us that despite her astonishing outpouring of poems (366 in 1862, 174 in 1864) only seven were published in her lifetime. Annette Baxter has little trouble recreating the disturbed melodrama of Isadora Duncan's career, recently popularized by Vanessa Redgrave--the erratic public acceptance of her work, the flamboyance of her marriages and the tragedies of her children's deaths and her own. And finally, Douglas Day helps to debunk the image of Gertrude Stein as blue-stocking and "great Jewish Buddha," by quoting Braque's comment that "Miss Stein understood...