Word: daughter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Weisses are one such family, which is why Brenda Goldfine, 64, Helen's daughter and Anne's niece, was in Dr. Richard Mayeux's office two weeks ago. The Columbia University neurologist, executive coordinator of the NIA's Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Initiative, quizzed her about her family history. Then he asked whether she had noticed any problems with memory. "I'm not the girl I used to be, that's for certain," she said. "It isn't terrible, but I think I make more mistakes than I used to." She got the day and month wrong when Mayeux asked...
...history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before, a portrait that encompasses both the great writer who subordinated everyone around him to the service of his art and the desperate, doting father who could never quite admit that his daughter was insane. The fragments of Lucia's voice that survive come to us freighted with an almost unbearable sadness. Once, when her mother asked if Joyce should visit her in the sanatorium, Lucia said, "Tell him I am a crossword puzzle, and if he does not mind seeing a crossword...
...born, Vargas Llosa reimagines 1844, the year of her death from typhoid at the age of 41. Tristan spends most of it traveling around southern France, pleading her vision of a cooperative future to small, mostly uncomprehending audiences. Years earlier she had fled her abusive husband, taking their small daughter Aline, Gauguin's mother. Tristan thinks back on the odyssey that then took her as far as Peru, where she went in hope of securing an inheritance from her late Peruvian father. The money was denied her, but Tristan was dauntless, the sort of woman who would later dress...
Along the way, he becomes embroiled in an internecine squabble within the household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
...Bush hadn't gone on this crazy quest, these boys would not have been wounded. The 21year-old would have finished his service and moved on to college. The newlywed would have a normal start of family life, and the new father would be able to run after his daughter instead of dragging himself across the floor. I admire these guys' optimism about their situation. But this could have been avoided. VANESSA LANDRY-CLAVERIE St.-Lambert...