Word: daughters
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...constitution from seeking a third successive term. He came back last fall, when he was eligible, and recaptured the office from the Republican incumbent, David Treen, who fell from grace with the electorate for committing the unpardonable sin-in Louisiana-of being dull. The Governor's raven-haired daughter Vickie explained the public's fondness for Edwards as the plane bibulously roared toward France. Said Vickie: "That man really gives a damn about his state...
...jungle where Amazon "women" live under the benevolent rule of Queen Foraday. Their manless solitude is interrupted by the arrival of the Conquistadores, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting and the priest Missionary Position. A battle of the sexes ensues, further complicated by the romance of the Queen's daughter, Kitty Litter, and the Captain's son. Jim Panzee, not to mention the songs, dances, and infamous chorus line. The requisite happy ending is accomplished with the help of Kitty's Auntie Emanem and the witch doctor Witch Waysup...
...year, and sometimes took the form of money handed to the convicts as they shuffled through the streets of Omsk in a work convoy. The first time Dostoevsky received alms in this way was 'soon after my arrival in prison.' A ten-year-old girl-the daughter of a young soldier, who had seen Dostoevsky in the army hospital when she came to visit her dying father-passed him walking under escort and ran back to give him a coin...
...seen and experienced by the patient." But Cardinal contends that her message is a more general one. "I never intended to write a book about psychoanalysis. I wanted to write about imperialism and colonialism. I wanted to write about the life of two women, a mother and a daughter. Since I had been analyzed, I decided to use psychoanalysis as a literary vehicle between past and present. That is probably why, as Bruno Bettelheim says, it is the best over written about this subject--because it is not technical Analysis was merely a tool for me." Although Cardinal has written...
...because of CF's agonies, Deford and his wife preserved their marriage with an unspoken agreement that both would not cry at the same time. After Alex died in his arms, Deford's guilt turned to futile anger and finally to a transforming admiration for his courageous daughter. "It frightens me most," he concludes, "that I will meet some great test in my life - maybe one for my life, as she did - and I will not be able to do as well as my little baby girl...