Word: daughters
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Despite the high level of intimacy, only one of the 101 people in the study was infected with the AIDS virus. The sole victim was the five-year-old daughter of an infected, female drug user; the child had probably contracted the virus before her birth. The absence of the virus in the other 100 was particularly impressive because most of them belonged to low-income families living in the kind of crowded conditions that are thought to facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. If the disease cannot be transmitted in such family settings, says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS...
...older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
...rehabilitation, established by the actor following his son's 1978 overdose death. Setting some kind of record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked whether the session was for her or her daughter, Mom reportedly said, "We'll each take half." Meanwhile, out on the slopes, Olympic Gymnast and Advertising Omnipresence Mary Lou Retton (4 ft. 9 in.) derived a different satisfaction from the diminutive Westheimer. Said Retton: "I finally found somebody two inches shorter than me." Dr. Ruth was soon seen...
...Madigan, of course, must have gone to the Ed Harris school for character interpretation and execution, because her portrayal of the MacKenzie family's enraged daughter Sunny in Twice in a Lifetime is just about as profound and thought-provoking as Harris' Charlie Dick...
...fact so subhuman that we aren't supposed to care when we see the Americans slaughter hundreds of Muslims later on in the film. But this doesn't explain why screenwriters James Bruner and Golan choose to inform us that one of the terrorists had a young daughter who was killed by the Israelis. Are they Nazis or victims or both? To be honest, I haven't lost too much sleep trying to figure out the answer...