Word: guardian
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...sister Rory who stayed calm and went to work. She was the baby of the family. After Robert Kennedy was killed in 1968, Ethel asked each of her older children to act as a sort of guardian angel over a younger one: Michael was assigned Rory, born six months after their father died, and they spoke almost daily. Rory began giving mouth-to-mouth and then started pounding on her brother's chest, counting off "One. Two. Three. Four...
...upcoming nuptials to Katisha (Tuesday Rupp), a ferocious elderly noblewoman. While disguised as a wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo has met and fallen in love with the delicious Yum-Yum (Caline Yamakawa)--but their amours were frustrated by the fact that the tailor Ko-Ko (Paul D. Siemens '98), the guardian of Yum-Yum and her sisters, planned to marry the girl himself. As the play opens, Nanki-Poo has returned to Yum-Yum's town of Titipu after hearing that Ko-Ko has been sentenced to death for violating one of the Mikado's laws. Unfortunately, as the town officials...
SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous...
JOHN ("I MISS THE COLD WAR") LE CARRE AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Snooty spy novelist BEST PUNCH: Le Carre, who originally wrote the Guardian to defend himself against anti-Semitism charges, retorted that Rushdie was "self-canonizing" and "arrogant...
From his distant vantage point, Dawson has watched over the 1970 Marshall football family. When the son of one of the crash victims got himself into some trouble a few years back, Dawson became his unofficial guardian. When the parents of Ted Shoebridge came down from Lyndhurst for the induction of their son into the Marshall Hall of Fame in 1990, Dawson was there to meet them at the airport...