Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold, windy day in 1951, 25-year-old Kim Ok Soon was fleeing south before an invading Communist army in the countryside east of Seoul. Pausing for rest and a drink of water at a well, she left her young daughter with some fellow refugees. When she returned, the little girl was gone. That same year Kim Sung Soo, 8, was separated from his mother in the wartime chaos around Chonan, 50 miles south of the capital. An aunt left him in an orphanage while she searched for his mother. She did not find her. Huh Hyun Chul, 9, lost...
Some of the humor is unnecessary and tasteless, such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...
...commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter. Scott who says he himself is pleased with the final product concedes that some might not be so enamored of it. Among the host of comments he has received was the suggestion to hang a sign on the front door bearing "Welcome to Harvard Yardenstein...
...also caters to popular tastes, beaming out sumo wrestling tournaments, baseball games and Japanese-style soap operas. Currently, the most watched show on all television is NHK's Oshin, a lachrymose 15-minute daily drama that traces the vicissitudes of a farmer's ambitious daughter who becomes the owner of a chain of supermarkets...
That is the theme of Tetsuko's charming 1981 memoir, Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window, which has sold an extraordinary 6 million copies, making it the bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom...