Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also provide moving autobiographies. Wendy Wilder Larsen reconstructs the early '70s from the American point of view; Tran Thi Nga offers a far more unusual perspective. The daughter of a Vietnamese mandarin, she twice became the second wife in polygamous marriages, first to a Chinese general, then to her sister's husband. She managed to escape to the south and later watched Saigon dissolve. "So many . . . left in shallow graves," she recalls from her new U.S. home, "souls wandering ceaselessly." It is a cry that echoes long after the close of her valedictory...
...balance that is bad for a movie star but lucky for an actress. She has a pointy nose, a shock of reddish-brown hair and a great, hello-world grin, but there is real beauty in her face. She could play anything from the hero's lovable kid sister to the dark lady of somebody's sonnets, although there have been no sonnets among her eight films...
...Eased into my battered '80 Camaro and tooled on out to the Valley to spend a day with Molly Ringwald, movie star and exemplary California teen. The northern Los Angeles home she shares with her parents and older brother and sister is modest, cluttered, comfortable, welcoming. "Sometimes her fans get the address and drive by real slow and stare," says Molly's mom Adele, "but then, I guess, they say, 'Naw, that can't be Molly Ringwald's house.' " Along with her family, the 18-year-old star of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink copes with...
...physicians faced other painful problems. The sister of one patient, ) saying she was afraid of anesthesia, reportedly refused to be a donor. That left doctors with no choice but to search elsewhere for the critically needed tissue...
After living quietly for five months on the outskirts of Los Angeles with her two children, Rosa Delgado came home one day to a rude surprise. Her landlord had sued to have her evicted, contending that he needed her $390-a-month apartment for his sister. Delgado, 28, a nurse's assistant, at first refused to move. Eventually she settled out of court, accepting her landlord's offer of a little cash and a 30-day grace period in which to find a new home. But when she began apartment hunting, she encountered some unexpected resistance. One landlord objected...