Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stubborn in the face of pathology. Mark Wade, for example, who lectured on comedy writing for kid shows, gave his listeners the ABCs of a joke. "With C you pull the rug out from under them," he explained. He brought out a monkey dummy, who said, "My sister picks on me." That...
...Court Judge Harvey Sorkow had denied her request to regain temporary custody of her five-month-old daughter. Surrounded by reporters and cameramen in the courthouse lobby in Hackensack last week, she told them in a trembling voice, "I have three children, and two of them cannot see their sister. I don't think that's fair...
...exactly jump into it, but Michael Reagan is becoming the last of his family to try out an aspect of show biz. His dad Ronald, mother Jane Wyman, stepmother Nancy, sister Maureen, step-siblings Patti Davis and Ron Jr. have all made movies, performed or done TV shows. Now the President's eldest son has made his own screen debut in Cyclone, a sci-fi adventure due out in January. Showing a knack for real-life irony, Reagan, 41, plays a bumbling CIA agent in pursuit of a supersophisticated motorcycle. "I kind of provide some comic relief," says Reagan...
Pamela Jacklin, Belushi's sister-in-law, urged a prison term for Smith. "We must let the drug pushers know that the courts will not look kindly upon them. Drug dealers are merchants of misery and death." Smith knows both sides of that coin. According to her attorney, Howard Weitzman, she has been battling her addiction for years. But for Belushi, said Weitzman, Smith might have remained "just another addict...
Very much like its brother and sister colleges, Harvard is not happy with the reduced social commitment among undergraduates. Though virtually no one wants to go back to the bad old days of the tumultuous 1960s, morally concerned faculty and students deplore the cautious, somewhat self-centered mind-set that seems to have invaded the campus. However, Senior D. Joseph Menn of Los Angeles, a socialist, makes the point, "There's been too much made of apathy. A better word is disillusionment. People have to worry more about paying off student loans when they get out and competing...