The program concluded with three songs by American composers, including Marc Blitzstein's wry "Modest Maid," whose lecherous heroine Ms. O'Connell had fun enacting.
The heroine of this modest first novel grows up falling in and out of love with theatrical types as a way of coping with the suicide of her formidable but self-destructive mother.
In fact, a modest statue erected to this urban heroine somewhere in the Village would be appropriate.
After the tawdry saga, this biography by Frances Kiernan, a former editor at the New Yorker, goes some way towards restoring Mrs Astor to her throne.Like the best American heroines, Mrs Astor had relatively modest beginnings.
"And so, for me, the actual!" cries the heroine of "Burning .A sweetly courteous and modest man, Mr Fry was well aware that he was lucky.
Chris Cole Mark Wahlbergg), a copy-machine repairman, lives with his parents in a modest house in Pittsburgh (also the hometown of the heroine in "Flashdance"), where his mother runs a day care center.
Maloof is a brisk and modest guide, though, in terms of self-effacement, no match for his heroine.
On "Ugly Betty Mr. Emmichh plays Jesse, an impossibly modest, artsy musician whose career advances after he meets the besotted, nurturing heroine.
Ms Shriver, who has reviewed fiction for The Economist, has a knack for conveying subtle shifts in family dynamics, but this book feels uniquely personal, and is more poignant for it.Pandora Halfdanarson, the heroine, leads a staid life in Iowa, where ambitions are as modest as the plains are flat.
