Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easier to see why Dow Corning and others rushed so breathlessly to get their implants onto the market. Why diddle around with slow, costly tests while an epidemic is raging out there? And everyone's life is touched by the tragedy of micromastia because everyone has a friend, sister, co-worker or wife who falls pitifully short in the mammary department. In the past, small groups of health-conscious males, typically gathered at construction sites, would offer free diagnoses to women passersby, but there was little that could be done until the advent of the insertable Silly Putty breast...
Kugel reserved special praise for the Nancy Bush Ellis, President Bush's sister, who served as the events co-auctioneer--along with Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Robert B. Reich. "She's been wonderful. I had no idea she would be this good," said Kugel...
Like the city of Cambridge, Franzen's characters embody many different facets and textures. His religious fundamentalist, Reverend Stites, is kind and smart. No matter how hard you try, you just can't hate him. Louis' sister Eileen--a B-School alum--is greedy and conniving, but she is more like a lost and pathetic child than anything else...
...course of Diana's treatment, she convinces Barr to meet her sister Heather (Kim Basinger), a tantalizing blonde with luscious, collagen-injected lips and a "small problem" with alcohol...
...Angeles, with motivating her on the day that he told her about her mother's illness and discussed the fact that she was at risk as well. "Practically in the same breath," she recalls, "he said, 'And we're going to fight it.' " He informed Nancy and her sister that he had started a group dedicated to curing Huntington's and had begun organizing workshops at which scientists could plan their attack on the still mysterious cause of the disease. "It was really therapeutic," Nancy says. "It gave us something to hold on to. At the time, we all thought...