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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Searches can take unexpected turns. San Antonio public school counselor Claude Thormalen, 49, not only found his mother but learned from her that he had an older half sister Nancy, who had also been given up for adoption. To his amazement, Nancy turned out to be a high school acquaintance. Gayle Beckstead, 55, who now works as a search consultant in Simi Valley, Calif., learned of a sister -- who hadn't been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Are You My Mother? | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Talent and stubborn individuality are Redgrave family legacies. The tradition of performing reaches back to her grandparents and includes her father, her mother Rachel Kempson, brother Corin, 50, and sister Lynn, 46 -- plus, now, Vanessa's film-star daughters Natasha Richardson, 26 (Patty Hearst), and Joely Richardson, 24 (Drowning by Numbers). In Vanessa's generation, the clan paid a steep emotional price. Says Lynn: "All families are peculiar in some way, but ours was extraordinary, a volatile, emotional and passionate mix, which probably helped us to be good actors. My parents never got us up in the morning or picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Vanessa Ascending | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan!, competing with her sister, who was nominated for Georgy Girl. (They lost to Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Vanessa Ascending | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...team never really got started out there tonight," said Lowell head coach Ann Leonard (the older sister of Chrissy). "We looked like scared high school kids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Spikers Humble Lowell in Three Sets | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

...first time I went down to Villa Victoria to meet my Little Sister I felt happy and relieved because the neighborhood was not as bad as I had expected. I didn't see any gangs roaming the streets, or any drug pushers aiming automatic weapons...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

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