Word: vita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choices for this pantheon are, no doubt, debatable at length. Few would question the selection of a figure like Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first accredited woman doctor in the U.S. But the writers' list includes quite unimportant figures like Vita Sackville-West and Agnes Smedley, while ignoring real heroines of literature like the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. What has caused the real flap, however, is Chicago's relentless concentration on the pudenda...
...maintained in Jacob 's Room. Her massive correspondence shows her weaving a variegated web to hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like the dying Janet Case) who are in need, practical and encouraging to younger writers like Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen...
...former Screen Bombshell Anita Ekberg, la vita is no longer very dolce. Bulkier than in those fair-weather days in 1960 when she frolicked in Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini's camera, the former Miss Sweden has been keeping house in the Alban Hills south of Rome. Barely keeping it, that is. The actress, who has not been seen much by U.S. audiences since Fangs of the Living Dead (1973), has been robbed twice in the past few years. To make matters worse, a local court last month ordered the cottage vacated. But until the eviction takes effect some...
...supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...
...Vita's feelings were reciprocated is ambiguous: the caress and diverted kiss that occur onstage imply rather more than they reveal. Love is an unbalanced equation. The evidence of the play echoes the reflection offered by Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell in his biography of his aunt: "If the test of passion be blindness, then [Virginia's] affections were not very deeply engaged." Virginia sharpens that point in the play: "Life and a lover she thought. It does not scan." For Woolf, her work was her life. While she would drown herself as pitiably as Ophelia...