Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised land she has seen only in the pages of Good Housekeeping. In America, she tells her daughter Rosa, you will find money, cars, TV, even indoor plumbing. "You flush it, and everything vanishes!" And so in Gregory Nava's 1983 film El Norte, Rosa and her brother Enrique embark on a perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded by too much. Up close the dream looks fragile and fraudulent...
...town, and we never have enough time alone." Despite such gripes, Kaija remains "in love with the man, hook, line and sinker." Says she: "Husbands seem to be a disposable commodity in this day and age, but Eddie's like family to me. Like a brother. And you don't divorce your brother...
...death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle the question of whether the Constitution forbids such executions by considering the case of William Wayne Thompson, 21, an Oklahoma inmate who was 15 when he helped murder his former brother...
...source of some hilarity over the past few years of dour golfing clones is the fact that Strange actually does have an identical twin brother, who presumably smiles all the time. At the Masters in 1985, Curtis had a near collision with history, blowing his chance by hitting a creek at 13 and a pond at 15. Nobody cried, not even Strange, though he did last week. He beat Faldo in the play-off by four strokes but really by something extra that the Englishman well understood. Recalling his own day of glory at the British Open in Scotland, Faldo...
...start my own asphalt-paving company," says Carolyn Stradley, 42, who founded C&S Paving, an Atlanta firm (1987 revenues: $2.5 million) after helping run a similar company. "Bankers would tell me, 'Honey, you can't make a living in that business.' " Stradley finally got a loan after her brother, who was unemployed and had once been bankrupt, cosigned...