Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention to his likely candidacy, and his staffers seemed almost certain that he would run. But the old scandals and family problems were certain to be raised anew: just this fall, a widely publicized book about his former wife Joan had criticized Kennedy as an unfeeling husband. Kennedy's sister Jean Smith, whose advice he highly regards, advised against another race. Politicians he consulted around the country were friendly but unreassuring. A final and perhaps paramount factor: in 1988 the Senator would be up for re- election to the seat he has held since...
...What Sister Geraldine would have visitors understand is that it is not a matter of how much she gives to the people of Sunset Park but how much she gets back. The gift is their lives, she says: they trust us with their lives, and we offer them in return practical things like food and clothing, spiritual things like comfort and encouragement, hope, perhaps; sometimes we give them hope. But oh, what they give to us. Sister Mary Paul actually cried last night to realize how lucky the two of us are to be here. Don't think...
...Hinds) who murders her stepson (Soprano Lynn Torgove) and serves the dismembered boy to his father (Baritone Sanford Sylvan) in a stew. His spirit reincarnated as a bird, the boy takes his revenge by dropping a millstone on the stepmother and is joyfully restored to his father and half sister. Watching over all is the juniper tree, in which dwells the benign spirit of the boy's real mother...
...each met separately with Jaime Cardinal Sin, the influential Archbishop of Manila, who has been a frequent critic of the Marcos regime. Sin encouraged both to subordinate their personal ambitions to the greater interests of the country. Later Aquino and Laurel met at the house of Maur Lichauco, the sister of Aquino's husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino. In just 20 minutes, the two candidates agreed to revive their deal for a unified slate. At 10:30 p.m., Aquino and Laurel returned to COMELEC and re-registered. By agreement--and to Aquino's obvious delight--the new papers...
...story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing. For every scene of raw artistry--as when young Celie's brutal husband "Mr." tears her away from her beloved sister Nettie--there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than...