Word: helene
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...just that, like the family of the man whose story it tells, there's so much of it: too many stars (including Elijah Wood and Lindsay Lohan, above right), too many story lines, too many messages. Laurence Fishburne offers wisdom over blueberry cobbler! Ashton Kutcher's a peaceful stoner! Helen Hunt's rich but sad! It's as if Estevez fears history isn't interesting enough...
...random killings, however, like the still-unsolved January murder of filmmaker Helen Hill, that have spurred ordinary citizens to take up arms. Hill was the apparent victim of an early morning intruder at her home near the French Quarter; her killing, and a rash of other murders, prompted an emotionally charged march on City Hall that month...
...line, “The leaping light for your delight discovers,” and then explained how the repeated syllable brings back the preternatural delight a baby takes in repeating newly learned sounds, such as “la la la la.” Kingsley University Professor Helen Vendler, who met Abrams in 1960 after becoming a section leader for his introductory English class at Cornell, explained how influential the nonagenarian’s work has been to literary critics and listed former students of Abrams who have become important literary critics themselves, such as Yale?...
...male victim. Gerber's wife is from the Philippines but is 58 years old and about a half-foot shorter than Gerber. Taylor also noted that the man's skin was very dark and that he had dark hair on his chest and head. Gerber is gray-haired. Helen Taylor, director of the crematorium, said she was unable to identify either corpse from the photographs, but she added that she found a hip socket and joint-replacement apparatus when she raked the bones out after the cremation. Neither Michael Gerber nor his wife was known to have had hip-replacement...
...statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure themselves with, different from any tool they had known before. Igo partitions the development of this statistical society into three steps covering a period of at least two decades. Robert and Helen Lynd’s 18-month stay in Muncie, Indiana and their subsequent publication of “Middletown,” fulfilled Americans’ “desire for summations of society, and for expert techniques to analyze it, [which] stemmed from a heightened sense of living...