Word: orphan
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...twinkle. The angry retelling of Genesis changes Abraham's nephew Lot from a shepherd into the radical lawyer of Sodom. In one case, Lot represents a man who has murdered his own parents, throwing the defendant on the mercy of the court because he is now an orphan. When Jehovah condemns the town, Lot flees with his family. His wife, of course, turns into the traditional pillar of salt. But that hardly disturbs her husband; he retires to a cave with his daughters, and there they live like savages. It is a fate worthy of degenerates, concludes the author...
...Detroit Tigers are the property of an Ann Arbor pizza man named Tom Monaghan, an orphan who adopted the Tigers when he was seven, in 1945, the year they beat the Cubs in seven games. Borrowing $500 some time later, he ran it into at least $53 million, which is what he bought the team for last October, aware that it was a good team but not suspecting just how good. Winning 35 of its first 40, playing 17 games on the road before losing any, Detroit dismissed the American League's East Division early and sent the Baltimore...
...surgery, medicine and cancer found that only 54 pages out of a total of 22,000 provided information about pain; half of the books did not discuss it at all. Part of the problem is that there are relatively few known facts to discuss. Pain research is an orphan field that neither anesthesiology, neurology nor psychiatry can entirely claim as its own. As a result, research has been neglected and underfunded. The National Cancer Institute, for instance, spends little more than one-fifth of 1% of its $1.08 billion budget on pain research, even though the dread of terminal-cancer...
...also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...
Rand's Christmas present to his son is stranger and more wondrous than any of his own inventions: a little animal called a Mogwai, with a kitten's purr and the forlorn eyes of an orphan puppy. The creature, whom Billy's dad dubs Gizmo, arrives with enough warnings to fill a Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from...