Word: wife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double entendre If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It. Her husky, lisping Body and Soul, however, comes off as a Carol Channing impersonation. Linda Hopkins, a 1972 Tony winner (Inner City), finds dignity in Come Sunday but loses it in her gleeful giggling about wife beating in T'aint Nobody's Bizness if I Do. While Carrie Smith displays a howitzer voice in I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man, she overdecorates the end of Am I Blue and dissipates the emotional payoff. All three, given their ample proportions, should have questioned the white...
...piano, the Charles family was torn asunder in slavery times: to acquire it, the white man who owned them traded away Doaker's grandmother and father, then a nine-year-old. On this piano, Doaker's grieving grandfather, the plantation carpenter, carved portrait sculptures in African style of the wife and son he had lost. To Doaker's hothead older brother, born under the second slavery of Jim Crow, the carvings on the piano made it the rightful property of his kin, and he lost his life in a successful conspiracy to steal...
Pepa's posh apartment is like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Strange people just keep piling in. In the course of a long day, Pepa runs into her lover's ex-wife, his new mistress, his son and the lad's fiancee. Plus a couple of doped-up cops and a Jehovah's Witness concierge. The film is devious enough to have speared every foreign-language prize from U.S. critics and obvious enough that Hollywood is genuflecting at Almodovar's door. "Pedro is going to become a major director," says Orion Pictures' Mike Medavoy, "either in Hollywood...
When he was called to active duty, he and his wife Alma put everything they owned into a brand-new 1963 navy blue Mercury Comet convertible and headed for Fort Eustis in Virginia. At a drive-in near Newport News, Va., the waitress came out and told them that because they were black, they would have to park across the street. Instead, they drove on. He can still recall every detail of the scene...
...glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time and again, Bingham prefers the rumor. It not only makes better gossip, but it fits in with her male-bashing thesis. It also allows her to note that...