Word: aunt
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...come up with more cash each month or sell. Yet when it comes to shopping right now, such troubles are a distant concern. Lucy Garrett, 55, an analyst for the Denver Public Schools Retirement System, has been in her house for 28 years and upon selling her deceased aunt's home this year realized how much equity she has built. So if she inadvertently busts her careful Christmas Club budget, she says, "I know it would be O.K. because I have money in other places...
...women in my family dispense advice faster than I can nick a pair of pointy black heels. Ironically, these many matrons most like to discuss… men. My mother believes in waiting three days before returning a call, my aunt thinks practice makes perfect (she was the popular one), and my grandmother once suggested I tuck a $10 bill into my bra just in case the date went awry. If he takes one shot of tequila too many, call yourself...
...Austen’s characters and captured the nuances of her society. He manages, in only 127 minutes, to leave no character in the complex plot undeveloped—Hollander plays the perfect Austen fool of Mr. Collins, Judi Dench is marvelous as Darcy’s cantankerous aunt Lady Catherine de Bourg, and Kelly Reilly is the perfect bitch as the manipulative Caroline Bingley. The one outstanding flaw of the film (other than Jena Malone’s hideous performance) are the stormy long shots of Knightley perched in contemplation on top of a moor. These...
21So what is Aunt Carrie like...
...Going After Cacciato.” THC: Do you think you’ll ever return to autobiography? AS: I might, though not for a while. I will return to nonfiction, though. The book I’ll be researching this winter and will write next is about an aunt, my mother’s sister, who’s lived in Pakistan for 30 years. It’s nonfiction and it might be a novel. I’ve had enough explicit autobiography for awhile...