Word: brood
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...Rice Mother is at its most poignant when Lakshmi loses power over her brood. Her granddaughter Dimple marries Luke, a rich Japanese-Chinese businessman in Kuala Lumpur. Their romance starts off passionately, but Luke's eye wanders and their union turns into a frosty farce. Luke pays a waiter to sleep with his wife and Dimple complies, hoping the assignation will lead to divorce. To her horror she finds she has stepped into her husband's new kinky obsession. Luke and Dimple's twisted relationship provides startling scenes that save the novel from reading like it's been cooked...
...couple plans to say their vows in a wedding ceremony on Nov. 19, 2006—their seven year anniversary. Saenz says she envisions a happy future married to Heiberger, living in Chicago, working as a teacher or a lawyer and tending to a brood of “half a dozen kids...
...them blankly, since that's not something I ever think about. I know who I am: I'm a guy who enjoys food, television and sex. The only reason I ever wanted depth was that women find it attractive. If depth also got you food and TV, I'd brood in a way that would make Johnny Depp look like Richard Simmons by comparison...
Fortunately, Park Service biologists are still tracking the remaining populations in the park; their Canadian counterparts have resorted to managing the handful of remaining birds. Last fall, scientists in British Columbia moved what is believed to be the only surviving Canadian chick from this year’s brood into a protected enclosure in hopes of sheltering and raising it until it can be released. The chick is literally the last of the spotted owls in Canada...
...doddering rock star past his prime and continually vexed by his unruly brood would seem to provide enough possibilities for real-life drama. But in an interview last week, two of the teenage Osbourne offspring, Jack and Kelly, suggested that MTV had been concerned that there might not be enough tension on the reality show and threw in a few curves to keep things interesting. On Good Morning America, Kelly said a confrontational family meeting from the first season was manufactured. Her brother Jack said an episode in which a dog therapist was called in was "an MTV thing...