Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never clear whether that violence is going to be directed against Madame or by one sister against another. Claire, the younger sister, is more resolute in her hatred of Madame, and seems willing to actually carry out the murder they continually plot; Solange wavers between resentment of Madame and fawning subservience. The one chance for the murder to come off seems to be ruined when Madame refuses the poisoned tea Claire offers her; this narrow escape leaves the sisters mired in their own hostility, and in the end it seems that one or the other of them will be forced...
...often does The Maids trick the audience that, even when it is over, it's difficult to say just what has happened. The real point is not to narrate the murder--as in the recent film Sister My Sister, another treatment of the same incident--but to create the atmosphere of insanity; and this requires much better acting than the Pool Theater production could boast. Rutkowski could communicate Claire's sense of superiority only through a sullen, sneering tone; she seemed irritable but not haughty...
...doubt the goodness I saw in Chinua. During his junior year, he often had to go out to print papers at a commercial location. I asked him once if his computer was giving him problems. His computer was fine, he said, but he had shipped it to his little sister in California so that she could get a head start with computers that he had not had. His senior year, I also remember him working an incredible number of hours each week. I later learned that he did this to help his mother financially...
...MICHAEL JACKSON AND HIS WIFE Lisa Marie Presley began divorce proceedings last week, his little sister Janet Jackson was renewing her vows in a very big way. Janet's bond, however, was not to a man, but to a company. Virgin Records had just signed her to a new record contract that could be worth as much as $80 million and is, by some accounts, the most lucrative record deal in history. Questions remain about the pre-nups to this corporate marriage. Did she get what she wanted? Was this megadeal a strategic coup for Virgin? Then there's this...
...there was hope. He recommended she consider a bone-marrow transplant and, in a breach of Health Net procedure, skipped the usual channels for making referrals and arranged a consultation with a physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged her to see a leading bone-marrow transplanter at the University of Colorado, Roy B. Jones, but the deMeurerses decided to play by the book. They drove to La Jolla the following Monday...