Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence, it can take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs a gallery in SoHo. "In America the answer is 'Because that's the way we like...
Highly motivated, the children of immigrants frequently feel guilty and disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...
Judy Collins, a mother who lives in Ventura County, Calif., is fighting mad. "They are teaching kids the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish," she says, of bilingual classes at San Cayetano Elementary School, which her daughter attends. "It's a United States flag," she adds indignantly. "They need to learn that in English...
...pace a bit. Says a friend who has known him since 1975: "This is one immigrant who took immigration very seriously." He has applied for American citizenship and has no thoughts of returning to the Soviet Union. "I have an American child," he says, speaking of Shura, 4, his daughter with Actress Jessica Lange. "It still amazes me that she talks without a Russian accent. I thought it was genetic...
...there is one thing that never changes in any of his films, it is that the female leads are lousy. The young girl who prays for Eastwood's appearance and subsequently desires to sleep with him plays her role with snivelling mediocrity. The mother who beats out her daughter in the battle for Clint is developed only slightly better. The only thing to be thankful for is the absence of Sondra Locke...