Word: helens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With these children, you have to push a little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together...
...children help by acting normal. At the moment, a dozen of them are circulating around the house. They stump in and out of the meeting lugging bottles of apple juice, flinging toys, pulling hair. Amid the routine toddler pandemonium, Helen is talking about the 21-month-old child on her lap. "All of us have a season," she says. "With Denise, we know we'll only have a season. But we make the most of what we have today. You just let the child blossom into your life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would...
Denise has stick limbs now, and the spaces between her ribs are like furrows in a plowed field. Two tubes run from her nostrils down the back of her neck to a portable oxygen tank. She wakes up three to six times a night, and most nights Helen takes her into the bed she shares with her husband. "She's dwelling in the love," Helen says. "She's not going anywhere as long as she feels the love...
...running with a money gun at your head," said a spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Helen D. Bentley (R-Md.), who in 1986 successfully defended her seat against a challenge from Kathleen Kennedy Town-send '73-'74, daughter of Robert Kennedy...
...Turturro) to tame the shrew with roses and sweet talk. Cyrano did better. Janice stands on a moonlit balcony, takes a look at the flowers, snorts "What faw?" and tosses them to the ground. Her contempt stokes Aldo's ardor and Huey's too. As their older friend May (Helen Hanft) notes wistfully about the triumph of love over logic, "I'll never again have the courage to be that stupid...