Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backstage, Cornelia's principal co-star swings in: Maura Moynihan, 25, a Harvard graduate and only daughter of New York's Democratic Senator...
...deep, 170-ft.-wide channel, nearly half of which is now excavated, CCI is using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent...
...fund raiser, he becomes lost and is given directions by a waif on the road, one of those annoyingly precocious children beloved by bad scriptwriters. He invites the girl (Katherine Healy) to the party, and it turns out that she is not a waif at all but the daughter of America's cosmetics queen (Mary Tyler Moore). The mother makes him an offer. If he gives her twelve-year-old, who has developed a crush on him, a meaningful role in his campaign, she will make a big contribution. He is soon persuaded: the girl is dying of leukemia...
...lowest. What the girl really wants is for someone to comfort Mama when she is gone. Although the candidate is happily married with a son of his own, he becomes a surrogate father and husband for the remainder of the dying girl's days. He accompanies mother and daughter on a Christmas holiday outing to New York, takes them for a carriage ride through a snowy Central Park and even manages to get the girl a role in the New York City Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker...
...transpired 300 years earlier. They measure their growth against the ageless progress of the seasons. Their father, a bad-tempered Welshman, rents a farm of 120 acres from the local squire. He expects his sons to pitch in when they are big enough. Their mother, a missionary's daughter, wants them to go to school and better themselves...