Word: sisterly
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More important, the British don't overcompensate by caricaturing the native milieu of these very American plays. In Hall's Streetcar the run-down New Orleans neighborhood where Blanche finds her sister Stella living could probably do without the roar of a passing train drowning out the dialogue every few minutes (a Streetcar Named Deafening). But nearly everything else in the production is delicate and understated, starting with Lange's touching and unfussy portrayal of Blanche. Toby Stephens (the son of actress Maggie Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor...
NEWT GINGRICH Blood is thicker than politics as sister Candace praises Newt at gay-rights ball...
...stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down on top of her." JonBenet's aunt Pam Paugh, who lives in Atlanta, has had about enough of all the rumors. "Drug abuse? Absolutely not!" she tells TIME. As for her sister Patsy's obsession with pageants, says Paugh: "The fact is JonBenet was in her first pageant a month before she turned five. She did nine pageants in her life--nine, not dozens. I would hardly call that an obsession." --Reported by Leslie Everton Brice/Atlanta...
...Malley felt, had become an anachronism. Successful as they are, with a perennial contender on the field and an annual attendance figure that hovers at 3 million, the Dodgers claimed to be losing money. "Professional sports is as high risk as the oil business," said O'Malley, who with sister Terry Seidler owns almost 100% of the team. "You need a broader base than an individual family to carry you through the storms. Groups or corporations are probably the way of the future." O'Malley also felt alienated by the politics of baseball; he thinks the commissioner should...
After thinking these thoughts on my way home, I get back to my hometown and talk to my sister, who is a fifth-grader at my old all-girls' school. She has all women teachers and goes to class with all girls. Talking to her, I begin to forget my grumbles, as I also begin to remember why I was so anxious to leave my all-female high school environment and come here: Armed with the confidence that I had just as much to offer as anyone else, I could now learn from--and alongside...