Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter away to the capital. The daughter is sent to the Sorbonne but rejects its imperialist values and comes home to Africa...
JEREMY'S problems are not limited to self-centeredness and disfluencies in his speech. He is also cursed with bad--nearly disfiguring--acne. His father is depressed and unstable; his sister is brilliant and outshines him; his mother is strong-willed and oppresses him along with the rest of her relatives...
...always participated in Holocaust memorial services here at Harvard," Gamulka said. "I felt it was important to share my father's experience to make people stop and think about how we all are survivors...
According to a statement filed at an earlier hearing by Parr, "Suzanne D. Moran threatened to kill her grandson if he told anyone about the assaults." That document also says that she told her grandson she would kill his mother and father if he told anyone about the alleged incidents...