Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other communities are watching closely. "How do we answer the old question 'Am I my brother's keeper'?" asked Randolph Arndt, a spokesman for the National League of Cities. "As a nation, we believe in caring, but we also believe that individual rights deserve protection." In New York 25 people have been committed so far, but many more may be affected. Like Brown, thousands choose to live on the street rather than in crowded, dangerous city shelters. Often they are victims of deinstitutionalization, the policy under which states over the past 20 years have emptied mental hospitals of their less...
Goldsmith also still has Ginette, after a fashion. Now 51 and divorced ! since 1978, she lives in one wing of Goldsmith's Tudor-style Paris mansion, originally built for the brother of King Louis XIV. In the other wing of the same estate, across a courtyard bright with impatiens, lives Goldsmith's companion, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, 36, a slim beauty with waist-length brown hair, and their four-year-old daughter Charlotte. De la Meurthe is the editor of a monthly style section in L'Express, the weekly newsmagazine that Goldsmith controls. There is also Goldsmith's legal...
...Dragon runs the gamut. The character of Mattie is handled adeptly. Though she sometimes stumbles on lines and can be soppy at emotional moments, Choi really conveys the portrait of the girl who's made it, a glitzy woman who turns her cultural heritage to profit. Mattie's brother Johnny (Yongjin Im) has fabulous lines like "Cantonese sweet 'n' sour goes straight to your scrotum, but Im is at times overly theatrical. And his accent does not exactly match those of the characters of his brother Johnny or his parents...
...Again, Dave: Dave Kramer's father and brother made the trip up from Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to watch Sunday's UConn game, and Dave didn't disappoint them...
...older brother's narration, however, falls short. Vilmure, unable to create a distinct voice for the disturbed teenager, relies on interspersed, italicized flashbacks to distinguish the older brother's words. But Vilmure's struggle to give a voice to the illiterate older brother is admirable, speech being his only way of communicating with the world...