Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does in his bleak, spare novels, screenwriter Ian McEwan uses very simple means to establish an air of menace. The death of a neighborhood dog, a spectacular multivehicle auto accident, the near death of Henry's little sister in an ice-skating incident -- Henry's role in all these can be explained away by people with a vested interest in maintaining their tranquillity. Ultimately, cousin Mark awakens Henry's mother (a very believable Wendy Crewson) to long-suppressed suspicions, which leads to a stark and indescribable climax -- literally a cliffhanger, but one so nervy and straightforward that it puts...
...certainly requires us to be even morecareful and thoughtful about how we work with ourfreshmen, and it does raise the specter of bigbrother-big sister watching you," says seniorproctor Keith W. Light...
...lives. Sharon, a high school dropout, works part time as a cashier at a Winn- Dixie supermarket. April, a recovering alcoholic who served in the military, manages a deli. They dreamed of buying a house, settling into middle-class stability. They hoped, one day, to give Tyler a younger sister or brother born to April by artificial insemination. Now they feel that all their dreams, and much of their sense of family, are "on hold." The loss is all the more painful because the "parent" who challenged them was Sharon's mother...
...Rodriguez and Evelyn Rivera moved in May from Bend, Oregon, to the lesbian mecca of Northampton, Massachusetts, so they could stop posing as sisters to placate landlords, employers (both are waitresses) and neighbors while bringing up Rivera's son Mark, 13, by a prior marriage, and her nephew Salvatore, 11. "The sister act is over," says Rodriguez. "You have to be honest with kids to produce honest citizens...
...moving story of a close relation." Princess Margaret went up to Hytner at intermission, "drink firmly in hand," and asked what ailed the twitching, foaming monarch. The King, Hytner explained, suffered from the metabolic disorder porphyria. "And what causes it?" the Queen's sister asked. As her advisers and courtiers semaphored behind her to wave off the truth, antiroyalist Hytner smiled sweetly and said, "It's hereditary...