Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little sister or brother might just like The 3rd Whole Kids Catalog, the updated version of the book that suggests hundreds of ways to sweat out childhood. But they won't like four of these: it's a fair bet Grandma and Aunt Betty will go for this, so look a little harder. If you want that sibling to grow up very fast, Shock Value by John Waters will do it. Written by the filmmaker who made "Pink Flamingo" and who once wrote that "If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like a standing ovation," this work...
...against Kuhn and the other defendants; he has admitted accepting money through Kuhn but denied going along with any fix. When Sweeney spoke of shamefully tacking the $500 in his closet, it recalled Ed Warner of C.C.N.Y. three decades ago, hiding the money in a shoe-box in an aunt's basement. They must have felt about the same...
...chaplain at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, runs Packard-Manse House in Roxbury. The old green house, once elegant, could use a paint job and a good cleaning. Small's haven for the homeless now gives food to anyone who needs it. Every week, several churches send food to "Aunt Sarah," which gets sorted into shopping bags. Poor people drop by when they can, to take a bag or two. The list of takers grows every week...
...even her closest relatives knew the extent of the struggles she endured while supporting her family on $2400 a year. Only when the need to pay delinquent taxes forced her to sell her house did her aunt telephone her for an explanation...
Perhaps the flawed ending results from the false-start-laden beginning. The main characters never transcend a foggy familiarity with the audience. At the start, Thomas sets before us three disjointed vignettes introducing each of the (living) protagonists--Marianna, her sister, their parents and great aunt Theresa--but delineates none of their relationships. As one character says of Marion's lover, the great-Aunt Theresa, "We though she should do something, but she didn't do anything. Nothing at all." In the end one might say the same for Anna Thomas, whose promise as a film-maker remains unfulfilled...