Word: orphaned
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ACCORDING TO YIDDISH LORE, THE CLASSIC DEFINItion of chutzpah is a man who kills both parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. Inmates in New York City may be offering a modern illustration: some prisoners may be turning guns on themselves in order to file multimillion- dollar lawsuits against the city -- for failing to provide adequate protection in jail. The city's department of investigation says there are currently at least eight such suits filed or pending, seeking damages of up to $8.5 million. Investigators charge that the majority of the suits involve...
Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...
...AIDS epidemic continues to grow. A report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that 18,500 healthy children and teenagers in the U.S. have lost their mothers to the disease. The study's authors, from the City University of New York and the Orphan Project, note that most of the children are impoverished and cannot turn to their fathers, who have either died of AIDS, are missing or are unwilling to help out. By the year 2000, the researchers project, the number of AIDS orphans will exceed...
...region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s and the women's competing love for a handsome French officer (Vincent Perez), a kind of Lieut. Pinkerton in this Mademoiselle Saigon...
...Deneuve, Indochine has a star of epic glamour and gravity. Her acting craft gives heft to Eliane's gestures, each more heroic than the one before. Her ageless beauty makes Eliane convincing as both a young woman in love with Vietnam and a grandmother ready to raise another orphan and make it her own. In 1985 the actress was the model for the French national symbol Marianne. Deneuve's presence in Indochine is like some burnished monument to the French spirit miraculously preserved on the streets of Saigon...