Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dreiser grew up at the time when Genteel Tradition was giving way to a rising new movement called "realism." In the early chapters of the book, Matthiessen traces Dreiser's groping for a new expression of that movement, which search culminated in 1900 in the publication of "Sister Carrie...
...Never has our family been so united as now," said Anna Maria Mussolini, youngest daughter of the late Benito. In Buenos Aires, on an extended visit with brother Vittorio, who moved to Argentina four years ago and now owns a textile mill, Anna announced that elder sister Edda, widow of Count Ciano, is also thinking of joining them...
...lieutenant in the Free French Air Force doing intelligence work, driving an ambulance and, in her spare time, entertaining troops. Off-season nowadays, she lives in a 12th-Century chateau in the Dordogne Valley with her third (and second white) husband, Bandleader Jo Bouillon, her mother, brother and sister, and a whole menagerie of monkeys, dogs, cats and parakeets...
Ironically, Royal Wedding's plot seems no less a banal fiction for patterning itself loosely on the true story of how the famed dance team of Adele & Fred Astaire broke up. The movie's Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...
...only witness to the murder, and almost the only one in town who might dare to testify against the high-riding Klan. But when she meets her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) for the first time, she recognizes him as one of the murdering Klansmen. Buffeted by her sister's pleading, the Klan's threats and pressure from a Klan-busting prosecutor (Ronald Reagan), she must decide whether to join or break the town's scared conspiracy of silence...