Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into realities. In the nine months following his arrival in Kansas City, Mo., the handsome young Mexican held a steady job as a shipping clerk, be came engaged, and helped his brother put down $500 on a three-room home for themselves, their mother and their 15-year-old sister...
...resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year-old Greek orphan and his nine-year-old sister: "It delights me when I am introduced as 'Miss Guenthner, an unmarried mother...
...Latin America one of the common metaphors for relations between the United States and its 21 "sister republics" is a shark eating up all the little sardines. The present struggle over election of a new secretary general for the Organization of American States has proved that if enough of the sardines get together, they can at least frustrate the shark's appetite...
...other sister, played by Martha Bayles, complements the little conspiracy very well herself. She is preposterously large while her partner is preposterously small. They play against each other skillfully, whether they are interring a body in their cellar mortuary or pouring another glass of lethal elderberry wine...
...spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications of incest, thus highlighting Wagner's philosophical meditations on the Ring rather than the story itself...