Word: orphaned
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...even these exemplary cases suffer from the cloying taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive...
...novella is the orphan of contemporary fiction. Too lengthy for modern magazines and too short for penny-pinching publishers, this middle-distance literary form rarely gets hardbound as a single offering. Now the Pulitzer-prizewinning author Richard Ford has published three novellas in one volume...
Connerly's life, a Horatio Alger tale of an orphan's adversity, pluck and triumph, has an almost mythical value to his supporters. He was born in Louisiana, where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was four, leaving him in the care of her sister and brother-in-law Bertha and James Louis. At six, he moved with them to Bremerton, Wash.--a journey made difficult by segregation laws that shut them out of hotels, rest rooms and diners--and later to Sacramento, where Connerly...
...severance pay but says he doesn't really care about the money. "I want them convicted, even if they only have to pay one symbolic franc," says Sarhane, a muscular former karate instructor. "People have to know what they did. I don't want to leave my son an orphan in the name of national preference...
...long-distance franchise, and seven Baby Bells were created to run local phone services around the country. Weakening Ma Bell's muscle made it possible for others to build competing services. But it left some 3 million AT&T shareholders vulnerable. Suddenly gone was a quintessential widow's and orphan's stock. In its place was a smattering of shares of eight different companies, all entering a brave new telecom world that promised upheaval and risk, not safety. The bust-up, though, has proved a resounding success for investors who simply did nothing. One hundred shares...