Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality of the story may be judged from the paragraph: "When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...
...also possesses a daughter named Charlotte, 39, who has been married some 20 years to Horace Nettleship, a dry-as-dust geologist 15 years older than his increasingly unhappy wife. Horace's long research into volcanic lava has convinced him "that Creation has been a more ponderously slow and haphazard process than was suggested by the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis." The resultant loss of his faith in Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel...
...Perssons have joined the Hibbing-Las Vegas charter as guests of their son and daughter-in-law, who've also brought along her parents, Bob and Jeanne Johnson. The elder Perssons have previously "swung up into Canada a couple of times" and driven as far as Tennessee, but this is the trip of a lifetime for them. Like other first timers in Las Vegas, they are dazzled, even by breakfast. The $1.99 buffet at a casino called Circus Circus stretches, at least in the recounting, "from here to that telephone pole" across the parking lot. "You had to walk...
...Queen, it seems, has chosen Tamino to help her retrieve her beautiful daughter Pamina from the evil clutches of the Sorceror Sarastro, the Queen's devilish adversary. Setting out for Sarastro's palace with comedic bird-catcher Papageno for company and a magic flute to charm away all evils, Tamino eventually finds Pamina unscathed and virtue intact but ready for love once the right man has come along...
...dreaded "Queen of the Night" definitely provided the headiest and most musical highpoints of last Thursday night's production. Her first act "Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren" (Fate hath decreed me doomed to suffer) aria was sung with soulful pathos and true heartfelt sorrow as she lamented her lost daughter Pamina's fate...