Word: cousin
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...Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a sect that has been disavowed by the LDS, has been on trial on two first-degree felony counts of rape. He is accused of helping arrange the marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin...
Rich grappled with Scripture and script decisions. Should he stick with one Gospel? The Magi are only in Matthew, the shepherds only in Luke, but both Magi and shepherds appear in the film. Rich's first draft did not include The Magnificat, the verses Mary sings when her cousin Elizabeth feels a child stirring in her own womb, because it didn't match Mary's character arc. When a nun advising the film weighed in on the importance of the passage to Catholics, Hardwicke incorporated some of the verses in a voice-over later in the story...
...rest of the world, sex and libraries may seem like strange bedfellows. But not at Harvard. Around here, nothing spices up romance like a little Heidegger. After all, boredatlamont.com is really just a tech-savvy cousin of the old “sex in the Widener stacks” fantasy. Maybe this affinity for library lasciviousness is simply the product of convenience. Many Harvard students like studying, and some of them also like sex. Boredatlamont.com lets you kill two birds with one stone...
...is1956, and Hoose is the new kid in his Indiana town, a klutzy, nearsighted third-grader who wears trousers a bit too high. Then his parents deliver the news "on the order of a cure for polio": Don Larsen--a New York Yankee!--is his cousin once removed. The kid and the star trade letters, they meet, and Hoose gains courage and acceptance. When Larsen throws his iconic perfect game in the World Series that October, "even a few girls came over" to the boy's desk. Hoose reconnects with the player 50 years later, expecting to find a "half...
...been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...