Word: anastasia
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...their child in an ugly divorce action, there was a vicious denunciation in the U.S. Senate, and, finally, what might have been the best years of her career were blanked out before timorous Hollywood let her come back in 1956, playing a woman safely desexualized by old age in Anastasia...
Contributor Jay Cocks wrote the main story, and Staff Writer Anastasia Toufexis analyzed the defeat of the ERA. Says Cocks...
...heard of John, she said, until a Washington reporter called to ask if she knew that her son had just shot the President. She wept at the memory. The judge called a recess as John Hinckley was led from the courtroom, shaken by his mother's appearance. -By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by David S.Jackson/Washington
...cripples, three are one-eyed, one is a dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual. Many of the stragglers are brought in by neighborhood youngsters who have heard about the Milsters' cat colony. The cats' names are chosen eclectically: Nanki-Po, Twiggy, Dick Deadeye, Pigpen, Anastasia, Violetta, Wilfred Shadbolt, Don Alhambra del Bolero and Mad Ludwig...
Most stood patiently for five hours as two choirs intoned a hymn to the new saint (We glorify you, O Martyred Tsar), and gazed at a new icon commissioned for the canonization. It features Nicholas, Alexandra, and their offspring Alexis, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and the elusive Anastasia, who some observers feel survived the family slaughter. For the first time, the faithful prayed not for Nicholas' soul, but for his intercession in their behalf, as a friend of God. For the new St. Nicholas, toppled from one of the earthly realm's most powerful thrones, it was quite...