Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...niece of Gromyko (not true), that she is of Tatar descent and her actual patronymic is not Maximovna but the rather Asian-sounding Maksudovna ("I am absolutely Russian," she countered last year), that her father was a prominent official exiled to Siberia by Stalin (unlikely), that she has a brother-in-law who was a minor party official until he somehow embarrassed her husband (unconfirmed...
...contrast, Twain's letters show a simmering distaste for politicians and a maturing affection for the family he left behind. When his younger brother Henry is fatally wounded in a steamboat explosion, the youthful Clemens rushes to his side. He "prayed as never man prayed before," he writes his sister, "that the great God . . . would pour out the fulness of his just wrath upon my wicked head, but have mercy, mercy, mercy upon that unoffending...
...that, the Australians are $ struggling to cope with 7% inflation, which raises the cost of such necessary imports as corks and aging barrels. Nonetheless, predicts Bernard Portet, the French-born winemaker at California's respected Clos du Val vineyard, "they're definitely here to stay." Portet should know: his brother Dominique was a founder of Taltarni in Victoria, one of Australia's best boutique wineries...
...Soviets denied Yuri permission on security grounds: he once held a job in a building where classified work was done. There may be another reason: Yuri's brother is a department head at Moscow's Institute of Cosmic Research and a top Soviet space scientist. The two brothers have not seen each other since Yuri applied to emigrate...
Todd's life is a walk through the 20th century, and Boyd makes a lavish, if somewhat raveled, tour leader. Todd's mother, like Rousseau's, dies giving birth to him, and he grows up with his dour physician father and his pompous elder brother, not knowing much of love except for the erratic attentions of Oonagh, the daily. An indifferent student, he is eventually shipped off to a boarding school that he actually enjoys, in part because he never takes rugby seriously and in part because he is able to develop his talent for photography...