Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before long, Doris had made up her mind. She would watch Sam during the day, while Lori worked, along with her daughter Barbara's children two days a week. "I knew it would make me tired," Doris says. "But what's more important than my grandson?" She won't take any money from her daughters, although she buys most of the grandchildren's clothes and has turned her tidy home into a day-care center...
Program alumni number about 200, including former representative Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton), Rep. Peter G. Torkildson (R-Hingham) and Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio...
...said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole, in his convention address, repudiated not only Hillary Clinton, but Barbara Bush, when he made the silly distinction that "it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family...
Sixty years ago, no one needed hope; the screens teemed with movies about women. Strong women, saintly or desperate ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half...
Disgraced televangelist JIM BAKKER, he of the PTL ministry, has teared up on TV plenty of times, so an interview with BARBARA WALTERS was probably no big deal. Bakker, who's on parole after serving five years of an eight-year fraud conviction (chief duty: cleaning halls and toilets), says he now realizes it was wrong for a man of God to be paid such a high salary. He learned this, he says, from the Bible, a book he was apparently not so familiar with before his prison stint. He also tells Walters that a fellow inmate tried to rape...