Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fronds but to sample the life of homeless people. In jeans and baseball cap, she watched a series of drug deals go down. She spent a second night among more vagrants at a skid row mission. Throughout most of her 48 hours on the streets, she went unrecognized -- until Sister Raymonda, a nun who has known the mayor for years, spotted her resting on a bench reading the paper and whispered, "If you want to conceal your identity, you should remember that homeless women don't read the financial pages...
...MOTHER has stopped bragging about me. My father and sister think I am crazy, and my brother calls me stupid. My roommates have only come up with characterizations unsuitable for publication...
...brother's existence. But one day, the Syracuse set comes to Ephesus, where the Antipholus there has established himself as a prominent and respected member of the community. He lives with his faithful but buffoonish servant, the Ephesus-based Dromio, his lovely and pampered wife Adriana, his sister-in-law Luciana and a rotund, lustful kitchenmaid named Nell...
Moskowitz's vividly imposing red windmill alludes to Mondrian's great early paintings of that motif. The side of the Yosemite cliff in The Seventh Sister, 1981, recalls Clyfford Still and, through that, the American Romantic tradition of heroic landscape. Such works do not escape the second-handedness that comes with quoted images, but at least they are quite without smug prophylactic irony...
...come a long way since Radcliffe College was founded in 1879 as a sister institution to then all-male Harvard. Until 1943, Radcliffe students were not allowed to take classes with Harvard men, and as recently as the 1960s a fiery debate divided the campus on whether to allow women to use Lamont library...