Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just because he can move a spoon up a wall with his bare will. The teenager is eager to escape his wastrel uncle Merdzan (Husnija Hasimovic), who practices Tai Chi and chases every village female over twelve. Perhan is desperate to pay the hospital bills for his crippled sister (Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest...
Several popes "consecrated the world" in response to the children's requests. But only after the latest consecration, in 1984, did Sister Lucia, the only surviving apparitionist, say the pope had done it correctly. Other Fatimites agree...
Perhaps if more people had listened to the Fatimites, the American excesses of the Cold War would not have happened. Although she condemned the evils Russia perpetrated, the Lady would not condone the use of violence to topple inhumane regimes. According to Sister Lucia, when the Lady at Fatima was asked what she thought of the United States, she just smiled. God and his saints do not take sides...
...find young and pretty Alex the embodiment of a victim of AIDS, alone and afraid. Her sister and her best friend Sam are too busy to come visit her. She finds comfort in the development of a friendship with Louise, her nurse. Louise, overworked and under pressure from the head doctor to take better care of the patients, is torn between helping Alex and sparing herself the hurt that inevitably comes of emotional investment in a dying patient...
...gives them pasts, such as "Tom Brokaw left his wife and three children to go and work on the railroad in Nebraska." He gives them family relationships, such as "Oprah Winfrey is the sister of a man who used to live on my block in Philadelphia in the 1950s." He also gives the shows a historical context, such as "when Art Carney was doing vaudeville, doughnuts were a nickel and a whole sandwich was a dime...