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...Brooklyn in the early '70s. The father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), is a jazz musician who doesn't get much work because he only wants to play music he respects. He is easygoing and indulgent of his children, four boys and a girl, Troy (played by the adorable and spirited Zelda Harris in her first major role). The mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), is hardworking and hard-nosed. She loves the kids but believes in discipline and denial...
...preserve the strengths of Native American culture and is a cruel hothouse for its weaknesses. If the present novel needs a map and compass, Erdrich losing her way is preferable to most other writers steering a straight course. Here is her description of Shawnee Ray's busybody mother Zelda: "She should have had more children or at least a small nation to control. Instead, forced narrow, her talents run to getting people to do things they don't want to do for other people they don't like." Lipsha, as the novel begins, adrift in the white world...
...yellow pages features a photo of a beaming, grandmotherly Zelda Fischer. But Gentlepeople, the dating service founded by Fischer ten years ago, bears little resemblance to the old village matchmakers of shtetl lore...
...magazine cover story, he says, badly distorted the facts ("I had been separated from my wife for a year and a half -- my wife was living with another man") and inaccurately cast Garces as a home-wrecking nanny. After almost four years (and marriage to Marsha; and two babies, Zelda, 2, and Cody, two weeks), Williams still gets apoplectic on the subject...
...charity world, her combination of regal presence and natural flair is rare, and golden. To Margaret Jay, director of the National AIDS Trust, Diana's great contribution is in "influencing attitudes. Her speech saying AIDS involved everyone, not just marginal groups, was worth hundreds of millions in ads." Contends Zelda West-Meads of the marriage counseling group RELATE: "She would be a natural counselor. She makes people feel that she won't be shocked by what they say, that she won't think of them as failures because they've made a mess of their lives...