Word: sisterly
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...television, music videos and "bodice ripper" romance novels. Over the years they have watched Rhett sweep Scarlett up the stairs in Gone With the Wind; or Errol Flynn, who was charged twice with statutory rape, overpower a protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...
Typical American chronicles that bittersweet journey for Ralph Chang, a Chinese engineering student who comes to the U.S. in 1947 for his doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American...
...United deal is only the latest -- and most spectacular -- to send hearts fluttering in city halls and statehouses across America. From Seattle to Boca Raton, Fla., government officials are gunning for the economic growth that new companies can bring. Local officials have long poached upon sister cities and states, of course, by snatching away their businesses. But now, with most local governments caught in a crunch between rising costs and shrinking federal subsidies, the practice has become a heated struggle...
...details of the case are grisly: in 1987 a three-year-old boy, Nicholas Christopher, watched as his mother and baby sister were stabbed to death in Millington, Tenn., a Memphis suburb. The murders were committed by Pervis Tyrone Payne, a 20-year-old retarded man, who also badly wounded the boy. Payne's guilt is not in question; in 1988 he was convicted by a Tennessee court...
...legal validity of evidence the prosecution presented to the jury before it decreed death rather than life imprisonment for Payne. The most controversial testimony was provided by the boy's grandmother, Mary Zvolanek, who recounted in heartrending fashion how Nicholas cries out almost daily for his dead sister. The prosecutor ended his final argument to the jury with this emotive passage: "Somewhere down the road, Nicholas . . . is going to know what happened to his baby sister and his mother. He is going to know what type of justice was done. With your verdict, you will provide the answer...