Word: amanda
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EARRINGS by Daniela Mascetti and Amanda Triossi (Rizzoli; $50). A glittering guide to the ornaments that women -- and men -- have been wearing since 3000 B.C., this book is dotted with small gems: for example, because of the improvement of French domestic candles in the 18th century, evening soirees increased, and brilliant-cut, light-reflecting diamond earrings became de rigueur...
...Young, Gifted, and Black unfolds in a standard stream-of-consciousness manner, following Hansberry's life in rough chronological order. Autobiographical vignettes are interspersed with scenes from her two famous plays, A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. The Playwright (Amanda Frye) narrates scenes as the ensemble enacts her memories. She moves around the perimeters of those scenes, smiling bemusedly and offering commentary taken from Hansberry's speeches and writings...
...Amanda Udix-Kessler, a graduate student at Boston College and member of the Physicians for Human Rights in Somerville, Mass., defended the bisexual population from both heterosexual and homosexual persecution...
...Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
...incredible how many books she has here, and she has even more at home," confides roommate Amanda J. Toole '90. "When she was writing her thesis, books were even piled high on the floor...