Word: heather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were those women sizing up one another like a couple of harridans glaring over a backyard fence? Incredibly they were Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Heather Bilandic, socialite wife of the former mayor with whom Byrne has been feuding before and after she knocked him off in a bitter and surprising primary last February. The confrontation took place when Byrne, who recently ordered an end to round-the-clock police protection for Michael Bilandic, his wife and their eight-month-old son, showed up at a block party in the Bilandic's Bridgeport neighborhood. Spotting her honor, whom Bilandic...
...Among next year's new offerings are a course on women in modern European society and politics taught by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, a Government course on the politics of women's liberation given by Ethel Klein, a newly-hired junior faculty member, assistant professor of English Heather McClave's course on women short story writers, and two Afro-American studies courses by the acting chairman of the department, Chidi Ikonne, on the black woman as subject and as author in fiction...
...Heather McClave, an assistant professor of English and American Literature and Language, who serves on the committee, said yesterday although women's studies is an interdisciplinary study, a discipline should not be confused with a perspective...
Terrified of cities, Ayckbourn lives in Scarborough, a resort on the North Sea, 230 miles north of London, where he and Heather have a converted vicarage. He is director of a theater-in-the-round with some 300 seats. He puts on new works and old, but every year, shortly after Christmas, he is certain of one production, a new play by Alan Ayckbourn. Some time in November he sharpens his pencils, gets out his pad of paper from Woolworth's and shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder...
Ayckbourn's aim is to write about serious matters in a funny way. One-liners terrify him even more than dentists and barbers. "There are not more than three funny lines in all of Bedroom Farce," he says proudly. At this point Heather confides his real ambition. "What Alan would like to do," she says, "is to write a funny King Lear." But with at least two third acts...