Word: aunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, animated, gravelly-voiced actress known for her down-to-earth performances on stage, screen and television; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Widely known as Mary's savvy Aunt Flo on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Heckart got her break in Picnic on Broadway in 1953 and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the overbearing mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free. In 2000 she returned to the stage with an acclaimed performance as a woman dying of Alzheimer's in The Waverly Gallery...
...made French woman Jeanine Salomone special. Achieving motherhood by using her bachelor brother's sperm via in vitro fertilization made her repugnant to many. In the world's first case of clinical incest, the siblings duped a California fertility doctor into helping them become mom and dad - and aunt and uncle - to a baby boy. In a further twist, the boy was joined by a sister a week later after a surrogate mother, also impregnated with the brother's seed, delivered a baby girl...
...summoned. Bobby will not respond because he's foraging on the frontier of his independence. Feiffer's fluid drawings bring his raw dreams to life. This is in no way a pedagogical or improvement book, but young Bobbys everywhere will recognize themselves. A perfect gift from, say, a mischievous aunt...
...glad they hit the World Trade Center." Javed admits he's not sure how long the beatings lasted--though it felt like half an hour--but he insists he'd have to be "a psycho" to say something like that in a prison. Javed is staying with an aunt in Houston while he awaits a Dec. 17 hearing on his immigration status. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating his complaint...
...hand-sewn apron, lovingly crafted for my mother who hates to cook, is a tidy combination of several realms of domesticity, and as such, it looks kind of funny hanging in my kitchen. This particular apron is made of material with little menorahs on it. My aunt made it for my mother one scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel gift season. I actually wore it recently, at home over Thanksgiving break while assessing the soup potential of the turkey carcass. I could tell that no one else had worn or washed the apron since early September because a pesto stain...