Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duncan presence will continued to be felt at Briggs in the person of younger sister Sarah, a sophomore and currently the second-leading scorer on the Harvard women's basketball team...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
...same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High Life by Sonny Okosun and a Jamaican-flavored remake of the rock war-horse Wild Thing by Sister Carol -- is so shrewdly chosen and sequenced that it becomes an experience on its own, inflected by the film's moods but not dependent on them. Something Wild is one of the best uses of contemporary music since Mean Streets, but, whether as compilation or accompaniment to some movie...
Furthermore, the film provides in Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...
...alone in thinking her mentally disturbed. In 1982 a District of Columbia judge appointed Douglass's brother and sister conservators of her affairs on the ground that, among other things, she "had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation for the person of the Pope." According to court documents, she once tried to become the Pontiff's helicopter pilot and attempted to purchase Rolls-Royces...