Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newport Beach, California, the Biehl family has been deluged with faxes and telephone calls from friends and advisers in different schools, from the White House, from Namibia, from Biehl's South African friends. In these she is repeatedly referred to as a "sister." The loving condolences are inspiring, says Amy's mother Linda. "She was part of something. They're a kind of reconstruction of the world she lived in." A world of forgiving, compassionate people, a place that has yet to be reconciled with the world in which she died...
...daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian country wedding and the tentative, unhopeful first night of the bride, the groom and the social wall between them. Whether...
...catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes, Sister Keating, the teacher, asks, " 'And what do we call that, Jane...
...weeks ago, the girls were Siamese twins, joined breast to belly, with a fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been left bare while her sister's had been painted pink by nurses to help doctors easily distinguish the girls. For surgeons would soon try to save Angela by sacrificing Amy. Even Angela had only the slimmest chance -- less than 1% -- to survive for more than a few weeks. Still, as Ken had plaintively asked...
...Lakebergs were financially strapped. Ken, a welder, had been out of work for a year, and the family had been forced to move after being evicted from a trailer home. So the day after Christmas, Reitha drove to an abortion clinic in Chicago. "She was real sad," says her sister Theresa Hubbell. "She didn't want it done, I could tell, but she figured the doctor told her to do it." The clinic, however, was unprepared to handle the unusual pregnancy and postponed the procedure. She never went back. Though the Lakebergs are Catholic, Reitha, a quiet wisp...