Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have always been particularly sensitive to names. I come from a long line of women named Corinne--but not just any long line. While the typical family might take the traditional route in choosing a baby name that honors an aunt or a great-grandmother, in my family we name our daughters after ourselves...
...film's secret star is Miep Gies, a Gentile who worked for Otto's company. Today she looks like a stoic maiden aunt; kids at a family dinner would peg her as a stodge. But that is because Hollywood teaches us to look for shining ideals in a pretty face. Gies has the plain face of true-life heroism. Each day for two years she took food, magazines and news of the war to the Franks. She persuaded them to accept Pfeffer as a boarder. When the family was seized, she boldly confronted the Nazis. She also saved Anne...
...commercial for his law practice. Guest Ellen DeGeneres has a touch of the flu? The show hires an ambulance to drive her onto the set. What separates Leno from Letterman (and from Carson before him) is the lack of any ironic distance. Carson made fun of those Carnac and Aunt Blabby sketches. Leno sells every bit like Professor Harold Hill in The Music...
Deliverance at last for pretty Ariana after her ordeal. Kidnapped from her classroom by violent outlaws. Imprisoned in the wild with only a slop pail. Forced to endure the pitch-black terrors of a deep cave. Safe at last in her aunt's warm house, she gives thanks. "How wonderful," she muses, "to know that God never lost control...
...lyrics are mostly about sex, yet they have a literate, sometimes explicit edge; they are drawn from poetry written by Peter's aunt, Erica Jong, the feminist author. Dear Anne Sexton, for example, takes the form of letters between two women who shared the same man. It gets racy, but never formulaic...