Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem Trip. He didn't mention it to me before. Some time earlier a Jewish woman in Israel had sent me a letter asking for the body of her son, a frogman killed during the October War. I answered to tell her that we had been unable to locate the body. My husband scolded me for contacting Israelis. He said it was too early...
...entire U.S. population, conducted in 1971-74. The reported weight gains varied widely, up to 14 Ibs., depending on the sex, age and height of the subjects (see chart). But overall, they show that nearly the whole population is growing heavier. In the early 1960s, the average American woman...
That despairing theme recurs in That Time and Footfalls, but the effect is more numbing than chilling. That Time presents only the face of a sleeping man (Donald Davis) and his disembodied voice, coming from three different places as he dreams about the past. In Foot falls, a woman (Suzanne Costallos), apparently confined to an institution, shuffles back and forth across the stage, talking to her mother (Sloane Shelton), who cannot be seen. In both cases Beckett's meaning is obscure, and he fails to meet a basic test of drama: the clash of character and idea. Sometimes less...
...Rogers' other sparkling one-liners include "It's got to be a Maximilian" for Maximilian furs; "When your own initials are enough" for Bottega Veneta, the leather goods company; "You never had it so good for so little" (Gloria Vanderbilt $26 blouses); "There's a little Blanche in every woman" for Blanche lingerie...
...time she hits 40, she has published poetry and watched her daughter become a child-woman of the '60s who whelps children out of wedlock. One of Eliza's former co-workers retreats to a women's commune, the other to hustling in Las Vegas. There is a rather bizarre episode reminiscent of those murky French "art movies" of the '50s: Eliza has an affair with the beautiful boy who caused her husband's suicide. She also has to di gest the fact that her half sister, too, was in love with...