Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tonesha Sims, 2 1/2, running out of her house to hug him on a recent morning. Bailey spends an hour reviewing colors and numbers with the pigtailed toddler. As Bailey leaves, Tonesha begs, "Teacher, can I play with you next week?" Lottie Holloman, 68, her great-grandmother--and her guardian since Tonesha's mother, a drug addict, abandoned the girl to foster care--credits Bailey with inspiring her to buy books and read to the child. Children in the program get priority for slots in Bowling Park's preschool...
...Padovics' arrival raises the convent's current population to six, a population large enough for a love triangle, or, in this film, a love square. The Guardian (the convent's general overseer), Baltar, falls in love with Helene and tries to set up the professor with the librarian, Piedade, in order to win Helene's affections for himself. Piedade, meanwhile, is a beautiful, porcelain-like young woman, of the purest mind and flesh; she often quotes passages of Faust in the original German and she loves Baltar with a fervent--and slightly incestuous--daughterly respect. Helene pretends to desire Baltar...
...side. Most important, he concurs that it is a mistake to "carve up" the New Testament and analyze the pieces separately. Wright believes the Gospels are more supportive than subversive of one another: "If I read about the Prime Minister in the Telegraph, the Times, the Mail and the Guardian, there are four different views, but that doesn't mean I don't have [a pretty good idea] of what the Prime Minister...
...public opinion," claims Vernon Bogdanor, Oxford's constitutional expert, and indeed, according to a Gallup poll, support for ending it has held steady at 15% for the past five or six years. Republicanism remains, as author Julian Barnes pointed out in the New Yorker, "a spindly growth." The Guardian, a newspaper that endorses it, ran a poll a year ago that showed support for a republic was in the mid-20% range. The monarchy exists by common law and Britain's unwritten constitution, but it could be abolished by an act of Parliament...
...official movie star. She's known worldwide; she seems to be extremely popular in places where she goes; and there are lots of substantive, unimportant, but symbolically quite important things she can do--open British trade fairs, promote exports--an official movie star." HUGO YOUNG, author, political columnist, the Guardian...