Word: nest
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Patricia, 28, has strayed furthest from the parental nest. Tall (5 ft. 8 in.), slender and quiet in manner, she not only dropped out of Northwestern University but also the lives of her parents in the early '70s. She lived with Rock Musician Bernie Leadon of the Eagles, opposed the Viet Nam War and, for a time, ceased communication with the elder Reagans. "I was very rebellious and very feisty," she once explained. "The one place I wanted to go to was Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco." Patti did not go to the counterculture capital, but to Hollywood. There...
...phrenology were in vogue, Sam Shepard would be the most prized anatomical medicine man among U.S. playwrights. He knows how to feel every bump on or under the American skull. He views the U.S. mind as a nest of conflicted vision -the lost but lingering vernal dream of hope and purity vying with the corruptive greed of technological gimcrackery...
Tuesday morning Reagan set out to capture Capitol Hill and took the place by charm. A nest of ego and pride, Congress is like a haughty cat that cannot resist being stroked and fawned over, and it was purring as Reagan went to work on Democrats and Republicans alike...
...millionaire Howard Hughes, Jason Robards exploits this dichotomy to great advantage. Bedraggled though he may be, he seems slightly offended by his uncouth driver. During their drive together, each takes turns looking at the other as if he were crazy. Goldman, who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, keeps Howard poised on the precipice of sanity. One moment he is bleeding. The next he takes on an odd dignity, refusing to sing Melvin's Christmas carol (Melvin sent in the lyrics to one of those companies that writes music to your words.) Eventually Howard relents; upon threat...
...adventure begins in 1974, when Elizabeth and her husband Bob take part of their $18,000 nest egg and buy a three-acre island on Stuart Lake in British Columbia. Maneuvering a leaky river boat, the young Americans arrive in midsummer with a dog, a cat, their worldly possessions and high hopes: "We dreamed of making a permanent home in the wilderness, apart from the forces we thought were destroying and polluting the world." One of the first things they learn is that building a house from scratch is no way to cure materialism: "I have never in my life...