Word: ruth
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Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
Deutsch is survived by his wife, Ruth, daughters Mary Edsall and Margaret Carroll, and three grandchildren...
Princeton vice-provost Ruth Simmons says West "has brought an interdisciplinary voice to Princeton hardly imagined possible at the time of his appointment...
...heart of the baseball season poignantly reminded baseball fans of a painful truth. Unlike pro basketball, Major League Baseball today has no one who holds the national appeal in the way that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do--or, for that matter, in the way that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and numerous others once...
...Music Orchestra material, can turn toughly political; he was once arrested in Portugal for dedicating one of his songs to black liberation movements in Africa. He has founded a department of jazz studies at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, where he lives with his second wife Ruth Cameron. He has four children; all are musicians who have in their father a man who has already left a profound mark on contemporary jazz...