Word: daughters
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Candy Lightner had a horrible reason for wanting to achieve that goal. On May 3, 1980, her 13-year-old daughter Cari was walking to a church carnival in Fair Oaks, Calif., when a car swerved out of control and killed her. Police arrested a 46-year-old cannery worker named Clarence Busch and found that he had a long record of arrests for intoxication. Less than a week earlier, he had been bailed out on a hit-and-run drunk-driving charge. A policeman told Lightner that Busch was unlikely to spend any time behind bars for killing...
Lightner, then 33, a divorced real estate agent with two other children, heard that judgment as she was on her way to a dinner with friends on the eve of her daughter's funeral. She was still furious when she joined them in a cocktail lounge as they waited for a table. It was there, of all places, that she decided to do something. "I remember sitting in the bar with all these people and saying out loud, 'I'm going to start an organization.' Just like that. There was this big moment of silence, and then my girlfriend pipes...
HOME BEFORE DARK by Susan Cheever. A revealing and poignant memoir of the author John Cheever by his sorrowing and sometimes bitter daughter...
...planning for this week's cover story began nearly two years ago, when Contributor Jay Cocks learned that Lean was preparing to return to the screen. "I was immediately interested," says Cocks, who first observed Lean at work in 1969 on the set of Ryan's Daughter. "Lean is one of the world's greatest directors, and I was desperate to get a chance to write about him." Last month Cocks flew to London to attend an exclusive screening of the finished movie. He was joined by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who edited the cover, and Contributor...
...real risk was one of the spirit rather than the purse. For Lean had not made a movie since 1970, when he completed the critically and financially disappointing Ryan's Daughter. He passed some of the ensuing years in bitterness, wounded by reviewers who so often tend to listen to movies more intently than they look at them, thus missing much of his special grace and subtlety. Some of his time was wasted on a two-part retelling of the saga of Captain Bligh and the Bounty, which its producer either could not or would not finance in its full...