Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus. HTLV-III is only known to be transmitted by contaminated blood and semen. Researchers have not yet determined whether the virus can be transmitted by female genital fluids, although Hirsch has found evidence that such fluid may contain the virus. The virus can, however, be transmitted from mother to unborn child, by contaminated needles and transfusions. Since April 1985, blood banks have screened blood donations for signs of the virus...
...contrary, moral imperatives are usually highly practical. "Thou shalt not kill" seems to me to be a pretty practical way of keeping human society together. Similarly, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" appears to be a good practical means of sustaining communities. That separating Harvard from supporting an evil regime and benefiting from tyranny also may happen to make the ending of that regime easier does not really surprise...
...Minter, whom he remembered as a beautiful nymphet. He found a grossly obese sexagenarian living in a dusty % and heavily curtained mausoleum. In a scene out of Sunset Boulevard, or even Great Expectations, she answered his questions by reading poems, which all bore the byline of her hated mother. When Vidor asked her to confirm his theory, she snapped: "You don't know anything about it. Mr. Taylor was a great man." Then as Vidor pressed harder, she sobbed: "My mother killed everything I ever loved." Well, what good would it do to make all this public? Vidor wondered...
...surface, Cecilia Danieli seems to be an old-fashioned woman. The wife of a notary and the mother of two boys and a girl, she enjoys cooking a pot of linguine, dresses in well-tailored designer clothes and still lives in Buttrio, the small village (pop. 2,200) in northeastern Italy where she was raised. But beneath that traditional exterior, Danieli, 43, is a lady who confounds expectations. As the chief executive of Danieli of Buttrio, a leading builder of steel mills and manufacturer of steelmaking equipment, she is a high-heeled boss in a hard-hat world...
...legend. At the start of last week the Film Society of Lincoln Center honored that legend with its lifetime achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films...