Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's Susan Cella's divine Sarah, queen of food cravings and karate skills, and Maureen Silliman's cutely whimsical Jenny, naively experimenting with marijuana...
...right thing, and it assumes biases that do not necessarily exist. In the recent election, she says, three openings for senior-class representative were open to students of all races, and two of the winners were black. In another color-free contest, a black was voted prom queen. So maybe more students would look past color lines, Alison says, if adults stopped pointing them out. The Desoto County school board announced last week that it will not do anything until the federal investigation is complete, and that could take months. All Alison can do is wait, in a town that...
...father, every father such a son. Dad in this case is tall, good-looking Clyde Latham, 87, who lives in the dried-up little West Texas town of Spur (pop. 1,300), where the tumbleweed can outnumber the pickup trucks and the restaurant of choice is the local Dairy Queen. The son is Aaron Latham, 53, a Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy) and, child of Texas that he is, a splendid raconteur...
...chairs, holding hands, assuring each other without much conviction that they are too old to remarry. Clyde regales Gussie with Texas tall talk ("One day the wind stopped blowing, and all the chickens fell over") and old-timey family stories. He introduces Gussie to the folks at the Dairy Queen. They kiss, they hug. In New York, Aaron frets that his vulnerable father will wither when Gussie leaves...
...John Paul will exercise his power of infallibility to declare Mary the Co-Redemptrix of humanity and "Mediatrix" of all graces. That would make her a participant in salvation--along with her son Jesus Christ. There has long been talk of such a move, since devotion to Catholicism's Queen of Heaven is never far from the heart of this Pontiff...