Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish they wouldn't have accepted her at all," said one incensed parent of his commuter-daughter. "I think it's a slap in the face." A long-time Harvard administrator argued that foreing a specific group to live at home was comparable to exiling them to a leper colony--not the kind of move likely to improve community relations...
...sedan driven by her mother Marita, she was taken 400 miles south to Cedar Bluff, Ala. There, in a secluded lakeside vacation cottage outside of town, Riethmiller says she was subjected to seven harrowing days of harassment and rape. Her parents say she was being deprogrammed. But their daughter was not a convert to some bizarre religious cult. Her parents believed that she had become estranged from them after falling into a lesbian relationship with Thiemann, a friend from high school days. Her daughter was under a form of mind control, said Marita Riethmiller, and "had become like a robot...
...weeping Marita Riethmiller testified that "Stephanie and Roe spent a lot of time by themselves, and I saw them holding hands, but my daughter never said anything to me about a sexual relationship, and I was unaware of it." Roe's lawyer claimed that the daughter had been a willing sex partner...
...produce flashing lights, squealing sounds and disembodied voices that inculcate the rudiments of spelling and calculating. A record of sorts may have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing buttons in her crib and changing the designs on a nearby screen. Says the proud papa: "Basically, it's an electronic kaleidoscope, another diversion, another learning device...
Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...