Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier, asked Interviewer Endo in some astonishment. Indeed, there was. Over the years, Mrs. Sato conceded, affection had grown between husband and wife-and they had had two children. "Our Mr. Eisaku, I think, is not without a certain masculine charm," she said. "Now we are like brother and sister. We've been together for a long time, you know. We are just like the air to each other...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...never had a job. He was always going to make a movie, or cut a record, or start a new hotel, or come up with a new orange drink." Her parents separated when she was twelve, and four years later Gloria went to live with a sister in Washington. Before that, she says, "I'd never lived any place to invite anybody home to. I thought that people always ate out of refrigerators...
...Director Sidney Lumet, who hammered home The Pawnbroker, pummels away at Chekhov's plot. At the country estate of a retired civil servant named Sorin (Harry Andrews) is assembled a group of people who over the course of two years will quietly destroy one another: Sorin's sister Arkadina (Simone Signoret), an aging actress vacationing in the country with her lover Trigorin (James Mason), a successful author; Arkadina's son Konstantin (David Warner), who yearns also to be a writer; and Nina (Vanessa Redgrave), an aspiring actress worshiped by Konstantin and enamored of Trigorin. Almost ritualistically, they...
...Scotland with the Ruskins to paint John's portrait, and his letters, which had steadily praised Ruskin, abruptly shifted to bitter criticism at precisely the time when he seems to have fallen in love. An extraordinary and crucial figure was Effie's precocious ten-year-old sister Sophie, who carried scabrous tales back and forth among Effie, Ruskin and Ruskin's parents. At one point, Sophie told Effie: "He says, you are so wicked that he was warned by all his friends not to have anything to do with...