Word: aunt
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...water halfway there, but somehow made it back alive. After we collapsed from exhaustion, she announced that a trek up another mountain was in order. Her conviction didn’t waver after returning hikers informed us they had been pelted by hail near the summit. This was my aunt...
...generally considered the king (his kingdom having—ahem—come), Jim Jones is a jester at best. In terms of lyrical ability and rhythmic prowess, Jones is not Jigga, nor is he Nas, Lil’ Wayne, or even my drunk aunt attempting a freestyle (true story). Jim Jones is, however, a man of the Harlem streets. So this mixtape derives its drama both from the claim that a Brooklyn rapper could never do justice to the realities of the Harlem streets and the implication that Jones can. Yet what we find in the tracks...
...look as if he is an effortless movie star, but he has actually given the job a lot of thought. He's not manipulative, but he is calculating, following the rules he learned from his family. When his aunt Rosemary Clooney went from being on the cover of this magazine to seeing her fame burst because musical tastes changed, she battled depression and took pills for much of her life. He knows random luck will eventually take fame away, just as random luck made him a star. If NBC had put ER on Fridays instead of Thursdays, I might have...
...avoiding the question of compensation for past wrongs, and few Australians doubt that Aborigines need more investment in health and education. But for now, many are satisfied. Murray Harrison, 70, was a member of the stolen generation. One of 13 siblings, he was found in the care of his aunt, an itinerant farm worker, and put in an orphanage at age 10. He has never forgotten his first night there. "I'd never been locked in before," he says. "For years I used to wake at night and hear that door slamming. This to me is closure." With Rudd...
...told me one recent evening, sitting outside a big worker's camp, "and get one day off a week." I asked if she, like so many migrants, has family back home, and whether she sends money back to them. She nodded. "I support my mother and father and my aunt; they were farmers but are too old to work now. I try to send them something every month or two." She had last seen them two years ago, she said. And when would she see them again? She shrugged. "I guess when I can't find another job here...