Word: daughters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yael Dayan's memoir is stained with blood, Camelia Sadat's is soaked in tears. But the daughters are not as dissimilar as they seem. Camelia, 36, also plays out an Oedipal drama: when she is photographed with Egypt's President, "gossip followed that Father was involved with an attractive young woman whom he intended to marry. I thought it a huge joke." The joke was not always so funny. In this sad account, Sadat marries off his daughter when she is twelve, to a man 17 years her senior. When she later demands a divorce, her father grows glacially...
...Edward VII the sole example of a prince who spent most of a lifetime in waiting. George IV was 58, and his daughter already dead, when he finally became King in 1820. His younger brother, William IV, was no less than 65, and both his daughters dead, when he reached the throne in 1830. Some famous heirs never reached it at all. Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, who conquered the French at Poitiers in 1356, lived to be 46 without succeeding his father, Edward...
...prodigal son. He makes an effort to catch up on popular culture by way of television, and fails: "The jokes were unanswerable riddles. He watched, baffled, as a housewife on a quiz show identified six different TV series from a medley of their signature tunes." Sheila, his daughter from a marriage that failed long ago, is approaching 40 and has become an author of trendy, feminist nonfiction. Taking a taxi to visit her, Grey marvels at the rudeness of his driver and at the deteriorating London landscape: "It looked a lawless country. The blocks of workers' flats were dirtier, more...
...gladiolus garlanded with bright festive ribbons to the presidential residence. Relatives and close friends of Jose Napoleon Duarte and his family gathered in the private chapel in the Salvadoran President's home. There they took part in a Mass of thanksgiving for the safe return of Duarte's oldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, who was released 44 days after antigovernment guerrillas kidnaped her and a friend, Ana Cecilia Villeda, 23. But the joy of the long- awaited homecoming was muted by signs that a total recovery from the kidnaping incident will be a difficult process for the Duartes...
...women reported that they had been well treated, and they appeared to be in good physical condition. But Duarte charged that the guerrillas had attempted to brainwash his daughter. "They tried to destroy the link between her and me," the President said. "But they did not succeed." Nevertheless, it is evident that the time in captivity has deeply scarred Duarte Duran. An energetic mother of three, she ably assisted her father in his 1984 presidential campaign. Visitors last week found her hesitant and withdrawn, sometimes clinging to her father in an almost childlike fashion. "Her mood + goes up and down...