Word: sisterly
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...animated teenage miscreants had an unfortunate run-in with real life. An Ohio mother charged that episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head, in which they gleefully plan pranks with fire, incited her five-year-old son to set their mobile home ablaze, killing his two-year-old sister. MTV responded to the tragedy with careful public statements, vowing to remove all references to fire from future shows and reiterating that the characters' antics are ''obviously unacceptable and not to be emulated in real life.'' Starting Tuesday, moreover, the network will switch the show from 7 p.m., when young children...
...would tell the tale of a penniless German Jew who lands in Japan during World War II, goes into business, builds a trading empire in Asia and becomes one of the world's richest men. In 1938, when Eisenberg was 17, his parents, two brothers and a sister left their home in Munich and fled to Shanghai, where a growing European Jewish community sought refuge from the Nazi regime. Eisenberg followed in 1940 but found no business opportunities in China that time around. So he sailed for Japan, thinking he might make it to the U.S. But in Japan...
...lovely as a boy struggling for security) to abscond with the family Ferrari so they can tool about in style. They will talk their way into a chic restaurant, enliven an ethnic parade and, at every point, avoid the forces of propriety. Chief among these are Ferris' sister (Jennifer Grey), who just hates the way he gets away with everything, and the dean of students (Jeffrey Jones), who distills all the pettiness of spirit and smallness of mind in a teen's view of adult authority. Jones provides John Hughes with the comic mainspring he needs to launch himself successfully...
...know. ''I remember we'd be talking, you know, real small talk, and he'd ask a question,'' James once recalled. ''While you were answering, he'd have turned away and was thinking about music.'' Goodman reserved most of his free time for his wife Alice (Hammond's sister) and their two children at their Manhattan apartment or Connecticut retreat. This year it appeared that he was enjoying a resurgence. In March, PBS broadcast a special for which he fronted a band and sailed through such signature tunes as Let's Dance, Stealin' Apples and King Porter Stomp. The years...
When my host sister Kinga and I walked outside after dinner, however, the sky in front of us was graced by one of the brightest rainbows I'd seen in a long time. The entire arc and a fainter, second arc were visible against the clouds above the open fields that stretched from the edge of town. One end terminated near a red-brick church spire atop what might be the town's tallest building—over six hundred years old, according to Kinga...