Word: marian
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...DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career--she retired in 1942 at age 29--won acclaim for playing innocents, memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tagline: "All Paris desired her, but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, Calif...
...says he doesn't know if his opponents in the primary will take his absence as an opportunity to attack him without consequence, or avoid the topic of him in Iraq entirely knowing it could boost his popularity in a district where 50% of the voters are Republican. Rep. Marian McClure, who occupies the other seat in District 30 and is one of four Republicans vying for the two seats, says that there's no chance this is simply an election ploy. "He is a young man doing his duty to his country, and anyone that knows Mr. Paton knows...
Rafi (Guillermo Toledo) is, by any reasonable standard, a catch. He's a youthfully tenured university professor. Besides which, he's cute, amiable and sexy. On the face of it Leni (Marian Aguilira) has every reason to proudly bring him home to meet her family. The only catch about her catch is that he's Palestinian and they're Jewish. But she's obviously hoping that given his good nature they can all work out a two-state solution to their domestic version of the Middle East crisis...
Isabel and Arthur Boyd return to New York to begin to reinitiate Val into their society, pulling her away from the young, pure love of Marian and into their own problems. Marian expects Val to resist them, but she doesn’t, and Marian begins to resent them.Val’s psychiatrist, Dr. Braintree, becomes an even more formidable enemy, telling Val that she must grow out of such stubborn, us-against-the-world friendships with other girls. Marian tries to save the friendship by having Val meet Henry in person, but her plan goes awry, pushing...
...sense, Marian’s first love, or at least the first friend whose love has changed her. Val brings Marian happiness, but that’s matched by fear. The book is not cheerful in the end, as Marian begins to face the many different kinds of lonely that adults know. But it’s perhaps one of the most moving conclusions to a book I have ever read, leaving the reader alone with Marian in an excruciatingly vivid moment of first loss...