Word: disown
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...groups related to sexual issues: Room 13 (“I’m really lonely”), Response (“My boyfriend hits me”), and Contact (“If my parents find out that I’m a lesbian, they’ll disown me”). The messages on these doors were desperate cries for help and, still, somebody was instructed to scrub at them until they were no longer visible. The basic problem with Harvard’s student support network is that there are too many groups and that, partially...
Steve McQueen, fresh from the Actors Studio, got his first starring role in this 1958 TV series, and at times he must have thought Lee Strasberg would disown him. McQueen's method here was a weathered glint and a sawed-off Winchester rifle in his holster. As a bounty hunter with a stern personal code of ethics, McQueen did have something Hollywood could appreciate: star quality. The fun in this first-season DVD is watching him mix it up with other tyros--James Coburn, Warren Oates, Michael Landon--who would also soon learn how to commandeer the screen...
...that David was no monochrome saint. In a matter of pages, David raids the townships of his own people, kills the inhabitants to avoid culpability, then writes a beautiful, passionate elegy to Saul’s family. Later, he impregnates a woman named Bathsheba, then tries to disown the child by calling the woman’s husband from the battlefield and getting the two to “lie together.” When the husband refuses, David sends him to the battlefront, “that he may be smitten...
Even Goizueta's father spoke out against the switch when it was announced in April. Telephoning from his Mexico City home, the elder man told his son that the move was a bad one, and jokingly threatened to disown him. Last week, the Coca-Cola chairman said, his father called "to take me back...
...jaunty manner, making quips about “browsing through thefacebook.com” to get to know the freshman class instead of reading their application essays. He added that he even tried to register his profile at thefacebook.com, but “my teenage daughters threatened to disown me if I did,” he said...