Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emigres gave various reasons for their departure, ranging from simple homesickness to plaintive criticisms of American society. Some complained of intense competition and difficulty making ends meet. Others cited a paralyzing fear of crime, while at least one woman expressed concern that her teenage daughter might start using drugs if she stayed in America. In the Soviet Union, she reasoned, her daughter would be safe...
...cinematic montage, the story jumps from Raskolnikov to his family, his destitute neighbors, a deranged friend caught in a suicidal religious ecstasy and, occasionally, the inquisitor who seeks to extract Raskolnikov's confession. This structure is meant to evoke Raskolnikov's disconnection: only with a dead friend's daughter Sonya (Kate Fuglei) does he show tenderness...
...children, Khashoggi is not a merchant-statesman, but "Baba." His four sons and one daughter by his first wife, Soraya, are all students in the U.S. He and his second wife, Lamia, have a son Ali, 7, who lives most of the time at their house in Cannes. Although he considers himself a traditional disciplinarian and keeps his children on a budget, they do have fringe benefits: the older boys have been known to impress their dates with a tour of the family plane...
Robison's husband is also a writer, who recently published a collection of short stories. Robison also has two teenage daughter from a former marriage. "I never hesitate to use them for material," she says. "I did one thing right. I convinced them early on that I was inept and pitiful, so they wait on me and do a lot for me-most children don't. They're used to an unconventional life...
...Sunday before we moved to Sodom, I went with my daughter to church, a sweet little Methodist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Except to mark an occasional death I have not been much of a churchgoer lately, but on this Sabbath my girl Whitney was to sing solo, and I felt drawn to a front pew, aisle. I am happy to report she did herself and her old man proud, and I carried the memory of her lovely performance with me to the city (she stayed on to see to her schooling) as well as something the preacher said...