Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unity's creators--a small group of people in and around the "Family," as Yeltsin's aides and hangers-on are known--wanted a reassuringly predictable election. "Were you surprised by the results?" a reporter from the daily Kommersant asked Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter and aide and one of the most powerful figures behind the throne. "Come on," she replied. "What surprises? Everything was precisely calculated." The day after the elections, when other parties were crying foul or doing deals, a Unity official said there would be no party press conference. "We don't see the need," he explained...
CHERYL CRANE KILLS: In 1958, Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter fatally stabbed her mother's mobster boyfriend SPAWNED: Theories suggesting Turner was the real killer; a renaissance in Turner's career...
...such resolutions I'm considering: "Stop turning down dinner invitations from my brother and sister-in-law with the transparent excuse that they're rerunning my favorite episode of Walker, Texas Ranger that night" and "stop silently exulting or actually chortling when another parent tells me that his daughter had enormous difficulty with a homework assignment that my daughter found ridiculously easy...
...retreat was temporary. The strapping redhead won his first battle at age 13. At 20 he defeated the usurpers. He fought successfully for and against the French King. He made a dynastic marriage, over papal objections, to the daughter of the powerful Count of Flanders. (William was 5 ft. 10 in. tall, his Matilda barely 4 ft. They had at least nine children.) By 1065 he was absolute lord of a consolidated Normandy. Then he looked northward...
...Coliseum like bulky action figures. Their leader Titus (Hopkins) is a straight-spoken military man of the past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through Rome in an open limo with a bubble top, seizing and betraying Titus' daughter Lavinia (Fraser). Tattoos abound, on the royal Goth captives led by Tamora (Lange) and on the Moor Aaron (Lennix). A big band plays at Saturninus' Saturnalia; heavy metal accompanies the Goths. A tiger stalks the forest...