Word: elders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around themselves was impermeable. "Though we had friends and relatives, including my parents," Presley's father Vernon recalled, "the three of us formed our own private world." Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs. "Poor we were," the elder Presley says, "but trash we weren't. We never had any prejudice." Presley may have been easygoing, but when the country performer Ira Louvin called him "a white nigger," Presley stood...
...fled the farm in her teens; her savage rivalry with her mother was exhausting both of them. The elder woman resented the daughter's opportunities; the younger saw in her mother a stoicism she could never match. As a gutsy, pretty newcomer in the city of Salisbury, she fell in with young leftists and joined the Communists. These chapters make a scathing account of party delusions. "We despised anybody who did not believe in the Revolution," she writes, even doubting that she would demur if asked to go out and kill...
...elder Marcus also tried some "spectacular food in the Union: a half grapefruit, a glass of water and a piece of...something...
...Colombe's wife sustains him and even works as a muse while he's playing, the memory of Marais emaciates Madeline. Her line, "I've let myself be destroyed by the memory of you" has acute resonance because she is an emaciated sack of bones. By this time, the elder Marais (Gerard Depardieu) is plump and flashily clad...
...Secret Rapture" is plagued with excessively glaring dichotomies. Katherine's demeanor alternates between that of a helpless infant and an angry teen-ager, while step-daughter Isobel, who is in fact her elder, assumes the role of caretaker. Marion and Isobel are the Jekyll and Hyde of siblings; Marion values money, while Isobel cherishes relationships and peace of mind...