Word: sisterly
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Still, every season someone attempts to revive the form. This year's example is Social Security, the bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone...
...other half of Harvard softball's first-ever sister combination is third sacker Lisa Rowning, the only non-hoopster in the infield. Rowning leads all Crimson starters with just one strikeout in 59 at-bats, and is tied with Hayes for the team lead in doubles with three...
Certain members of their ranks, perhaps eager to prove their manhood in some heavy-metal courtship ritual, have the habit of inviting members of the Harvard community, myself included, to relatively unarmed combat. Seldom a week goes by without some Twisted Sister fan sneering "Lookin' sweet, babycakes," at me, or trying to slamdance me off of the sidewalk...
...Sweden's Pia Cramling, 22, as the world's second-ranked female chess player (behind the Soviet Union's Maya Chiburdanidze, 25), the teenager soundly thrashed six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne, 37, on her way to a respectable showing of 25th in the top section of the tournament. Sister Sophia, 11, meanwhile swept to second place in the expert category. Finally, the baby of the family, Judith, a pudgy, self-confident nine-year-old, astounded observers by posting seven straight victories and a draw to take first place among the tournament's 1,000 unranked players. "A family might...
Wellesley and Harvard continue to maintain close familial ties: many Harvard students have sisters at Wellesley. However, when the siblings get together, they usually meet in Cambridge. "I have a sister at Wellesley, but I don't know much about the place. I don't go there much; my sister comes to visit here," says Dan Klingensmith...