Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father and the search for a meaning in life. They tormented Dostoevsky with a special force, for he was endlessly haunted by the revelation, at age 17, that his feared and hated father had been murdered by a band of his own serfs, including several whose daughters the elder Dostoevsky had molested. Patricide ultimately became the core of The Brothers Karamazov. Before confronting that, however, Dostoevsky had to write "this first trial flight of my thoughts...
...Holliday walks in out of the prairie dust. Kate Elder, now off the line and making a home, looks up from her work. "Hiya, bones," she says. Hello, bitch," he smiles...
...special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...pace is so slow that the real Doc Holliday could have dealt a hand of poker during each halt in dialogue. But Stacy Keach manages to suggest some depth in the Holliday character, and Harris Yullin, as Earp, slithers through his scenes like a genuine sidewinder. Playing Kate Elder, Faye Dunaway is better than she has been since Bonnie and Clyde, raunchy and touchingly haunted by the always frustrated hope of a better life. The irony is that Doc is interesting bunk. mainly It is for the the stuff things of it is legend- trying the to challenges, the brawls...
...happened, Mrs. Sallie Blue needed Vida more than Houston did. Vida Blue Sr. died, and Mrs. Blue told her elder son, "Now, Junior, you're the man of the house." Recalls Vida: "We had always had a happy, decent family life, but suddenly there we were with no real means of support. I had to do things that would show my brother and sisters that I could be a leader." He got his chance after Oakland Scout Connie Ryan saw him pitch one night in Mansfield and excitedly reported back to Finley: "He is the best lefthander I have seen...