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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Barry moved to Pitsburgh, soccer teams for young girls were more difficult to find. Her mother started a league so she and her sister could continue their soccer careers, and from then her career soared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Determined to Make Memories | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...Chad Raphael), the Violent Drifter, who has just beaten his wife, Flighty But Passionate Beth (Heather Gunn), so mercilessly that he thinks he has killed her. Their respective families run to their aid. On Jake's side there's his Loyal But Timid brother Frankie (Daniel Hurewitz), his Embittered sister Sally (Diane Paulus), and his Oedipally Overnurturing Mother Lorraine (Susan Schwartz). Their counterparts in Beth's family are her Vengeful brother Mike (Sam Sifton), her Death-Obsessed Hunter father Baylor (Jon Tolins), and her Fearful And Self-Deluding mother Meg (Jenny Lyn Bader...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Sam Enchanted Evening | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...whose brother and sister are also artists, grew up in Lexington, Mass. His sister is a ceramicist, and his younger brother is a preparator for the Smith College Museum of Art. His older brother is an officer in the Air Force and is "as old as Ollie North," Tom says...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...thing that Jim didn't like about Martins Ferry was some of the evil he saw," comments his sister Marge Pyle, who now lives cheerfully on a farm in Warnock, Ohio. "He didn't like that my dad had to go to work. Really, son, I don't know why. During the Depression, when other people were standing in breadlines, my dad had work and provided for us. But Jim never liked to see the underdog pressed or people misused. That was just his makeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...family -- here called the Rohans -- waged and, from a semidetached house in suburban London, waited out the war against Hitler. Dad (David Hayman) joined the army. Mum (Sarah Miles) stayed home with the three children. The teenage daughter (Sammi Davis) discovered the romance of sex under fire. Her preschool sister (Geraldine Muir) held on to any available hand. And Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards), Boorman's seven-year-old surrogate, was thrilled to pieces by the explosive newness of it all. A bombed-out house with all its booty! A Luftwaffe pilot parachuting into the neighborhood! If these adventures can land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Dreams HOPE AND GLORY | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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