Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary level of bourgeois selfdefinition--that causes me to cast a wary eye on them today, and which ought to cause Harvard Black students to do likewise. Although some Black Greeks have adult branches involved in voter registration and in community uplift activity such as Big-Brother and Big-Sister mentoring, they are mainly still instruments of a consumerist/hedonist bourgeois world view...
...this sounds like the umpteenth rewrite of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the best defense Brian Friel might offer for his superb play, now off-Broadway, is that his characters seem Chekhovian only because they are so candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled...
...measurements, saying they were probably faulty because the solution in the setup was unstirred, the temperature was not uniform and the thermometer was placed in a "hot spot." That conclusion moved Stanford physicist Walter Meyerhof to turn poetic. Said he: "Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, dear sister and brother,/ Because scientists put a thermometer at one place and not another...
Mulvehal, a senior from San Diego, started playing tennis when she was six years old--playing with her older sister, Karen, who later played tennis...
...life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation fetish...