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...been 12 years since her last novel, but in The Shelters of Stone (Crown; 753 pages) little has changed. Auel's heroine, the plucky orphan Ayla, is still making her way in the spear-throwing, wolf-taming, sexually liberated Cro-Magnon era. Shelters is Auel's Paleolithic answer to Meet the Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts...
...taken to calling the 2011 expiration the “largest tax increase” in American history. The whole scheme brings to mind the traditional example of chutzpah—the murderer who kills his parents and then asks for the court’s mercy as an orphan...
...hero, Beatrice, is a cub reporter at a major New York daily. An orphan with no one in the world except her fiancé, she goes looking for him after he disappears on assignment in Iceland. Her search for him leads to a series of bizarre but plausible misadventures, culminating in an excruciating spine operation in a Reykjavik hospital, where she is mothered by a kind surgeon (played with quiet warmth by Julie Christie). Fully recovered from her injuries, she sets out to find the remote village where her boyfriend was last seen alive, only to be drugged by villagers...
...National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry spent five minutes with SHARBAT GULA. He spent the next 17 years trying to find her again. The first meeting took place when McCurry visited an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan and took the 12-year-old orphan's picture. He didn't learn her name, only that her parents had been killed by Soviet bombs. The picture appeared on the magazine's cover and, according to the editors, became the most recognized photograph in the publication's history. In subsequent visits to the region, McCurry tried in vain to locate her again. In January...
...first act is highlighted by a duet between Jose (played by Vince Wolfsteiner) and Micaëla (played by Jane Lynch ’04)—the orphan girl Jose’s mother hopes he will wed—where the two extraordinary singers showcase their voices in a moving exchange...