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Bernard Walsh, an apologetic theologian, travels with his father to the island to visit the dying Ursula, his great-aunt, and to wind up her affairs. Jack, Bernard's father, hasn't seen his sister in years, and Bernard induces him to come only by the vague intimation that Ursula's fortune awaits an inheritor...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Cultures Clash, Creating A Humorous Paradise: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...other piece of evidence is that the majority of my 4'9" mother's clothes that fit well are sent from Japan by an aunt. If my mom can find clothes that fit in Japanese department stores with relative ease, then a good number of Asians are that short. Economics, you know...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: AAA's Fashion Show Is Not for Asians | 4/8/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard College Class of 1892 in a used bookstore. We paid a dollar for the book, a compilation of 191 autobiographical sketches, called "Class Lives," which are each about two pages long. We feel a tenuous connection with these men, perhaps like you'd feel with a dead great aunt. Or a major league baseball player who went to your high school. Or maybe the guy buried next to your mother's grave. It's kind of morbid...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: The Class of (18)92 | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...turbaned answer-and-question man, showed up a few weeks ago for the last time. (Carson himself wrote more than half the gags.) Art Fern will introduce his final Tea Time movie in a bit scheduled for this week. There may even be a comeback for lovable old -- old -- Aunt Blabby. But Vickers and Nicholls, a pair of laid-back Canadians in their mid-30s who joined the Carson staff in 1986, barely remember El Moldo. Except for a one- night reprise in 1989, Carson hasn't done him since 1983. But there's one thing Nicholls does remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And What a Reign It Was | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...with the death of Dottie's Aunt Harriet, who spends her last moments on earth at a bargain basement clearance sale, Dottie inherits the money to make a new life. With this newfound freedom, Dottie moves her family from Queens to Manhattan and is off in pursuit of her dream...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, | Title: Life Is No Joke When Your Kids Hate You | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

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