Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warm friendship with Hussein Kamel about a year ago when the Iraqi commander underwent surgery in Amman for the removal of a noncancerous brain tumor. The King reportedly visited the hospital nearly every day, and the two hit it off. At the same time, it seems, the invalid's absence from Iraq presented a golden opportunity for Saddam's eldest son, Uday, 33, who has recently ascended in power and prestige...
...bent. While Boswell undermined the Christian condemnation of homosexuality and Shilts exposed government inaction and corruption, Miller is just providing a resource. Some might say that just claiming the existence of a gay and lesbian history is a political statement, but Miller's book proves that this is an invalid point. Out of the Past is an accessible, entertaining and thorough reference to a subject whose scope we are just now discovering...
...also a tough-minded, coarse-tongued woman who is supporting herself by taking care of Mrs. Donovan (Judy Parfitt), a rich-bitch invalid, and mourning her estrangement from Selena, her deeply disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Precisely because of the absence of decent men in her life, Dolores is obliged to combine traditional masculine and feminine roles in one surprising, ultimately endearing persona...
...latest Stephen King best seller to hit the big screen features Kathy Bates as a coarse-tongued yet endearing heroine who supports herself by caring for a rich invalid (Judy Parfitt) while mourning her estrangement from her deeply disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The villain is Dolores' husband, a drunken wife beater (David Strathairn) who deserves the bad end she arranges for him in a tale complicated by its vagueness. "King boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues," says TIME critic Richard Schickel. "This is his fantasia on feminist themes...
...evoked years later in the poems of A Child's Garden of Verses. His father Thomas was a mighty builder of lighthouses and breakwaters, and the future author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped saw more of the sea than most Scottish boys. His mother Maggie was a beloved invalid herself, and most of the boy's care was taken over by a kindly but ferociously religious nurse...