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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan family. More than a year ago, First Son Michael made headlines by hinting at differences with his stepmother Nancy and disclosing that the President very rarely sees his grandchildren. Maureen Reagan is, like her father, a conservative, but also has been an outspoken feminist. Her free-spirited half sister Patti Davis, who uses her mother's maiden name, has had tumultuous but unsuccessful careers in acting and music. She has come out with a novel, Home Front, a thinly disguised autobiography about growing up as the daughter of an actor who becomes Governor of California and then President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Trying to Have Fun | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...been made. And what changes they were! Where Snow White once graced the screen, Madonna has become a queen of the stage. In the hall where the movie King Kong premiered, the closest thing to a horror show these days is a concert by the shockrock group Twisted Sister. In addition to the high-kicking Rockettes (who still show up from time to time), audiences are now treated to sights such as 12-ft. dancing mummies and walls of flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mighty High-Kicking Comeback | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Since he escaped from Vietnam with his mother and younger sister in 1981, Nguyen hasn't let his new-found culture or language stop him from achieving much more than the ordinary Ivy League applicant...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Move Over Gould and Wilson, Here Comes.... | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

Nguyen's mother, Kieu Huynh, is now studying English, and works at various part-time jobs. "It's tough for older people to learn new languages. My sister [Mail] is younger than me so it was easier for her to learn English. She speaks better English than...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Move Over Gould and Wilson, Here Comes.... | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...after being separated for two years, Judy and Dave are trying to deal with their confusion and their relationship by endlessly talking and thinking about it. One by one, several others enter the picture and invent their own ways of trying to cope. Judy's sister Peggy (Melissa Leo) spends her time smoking pot and sleeping around, creating her own perfect world within her head...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Nearly Never | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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