Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good as her tantalizing opening words, Margaret goes on to recount an extremely hectic four or so weeks in her life. For openers, her six-year marriage to Adrian, 20 years her senior and the chaplain at a nearby experimental school for troubled youths, seems to be foundering. He is depressed, overburdened with work--filling in for the headmaster-founder who has recently died--and physically inattentive. Then there is Tony, an old man in a monk's habit who appears at the rectory requesting lodging. Next comes Chase, a teenager at Adrian's school who was expelled...
...Penguins out-shot the Canucks 40-18, but still fell behind 2-0 and 4-2 by giving up a pair of breakaway goals, one by Adrian Aucoin that was Vancouver's league-leading 13th shorthanded goal...
Another big name this year for Brown is Adrian Rapp, a freshman from Sausalito, Calif. He has scored goals in three consecutive games, and is the 10th leading scorer in the Ivy League...
...MUSC, Hunter became a patient of Dr. Adrian Rubin, who agreed with the Greenville doctor that Hunter needed a new liver but who also recognized that insurance was very much a factor. Rubin consulted with the hospital's financial staff, which confirmed that MUSC did not have a liver-transplant contract with Hunter's carrier, Physician's Health Plan. But, Rubin was told, Duke, where he knew the liver people, did have a PHP contract. So the physician recommended that Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant...
...Adrian Lyne's controversial film Lolita had the misfortune of arriving in a time when the sexual abuse of children has become an explosive societal issue. For all the hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame; those expecting child pornography or a trenchant critique of pedophilia are bound to be disappointed. Still, Lyne has done an admirable job with the challenge of adapting Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel for the screen. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory...