Word: sons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rachel, now a senior, had her first son in June of her freshman year of CRLS and her second son almost two years later. Though she no longer takes the parenting class, she comes in every afternoon to work at the day care as an intern and see her sons. "I love the Day Care. They help me with everything, real-life things that you need to know. When Mark [my first son] was born, I was the baddest...
...Informatique Society, which is striving to wire isolated Syria to the Internet. He dispenses with the nationalistic swagger of his father's generation, and has been heard reflecting somberly on Syria's fears, his hopes for change, the impatience of youth and prospects for negotiating with Israel. For a son of Syria's strongman, feared and respected for ruthlessness and cunning, he has a surprisingly touchy-feely side. "Where are we?" he replied when questioned by a Saudi magazine recently about his feelings toward the new millennium. "Did we fail? Where are we heading...
...son of a Baptist minister, Freberg grew up in South Pasadena, Calif., and got into radio right out of high school. After doing cartoon voiceovers and helping create the kids' TV series Time for Beany, Freberg scored his first big success with the 1951 comedy record John & Marsha, in which all the heartache and melodrama of soap operas were distilled into a two-minute dialogue made up of just two words: John and Marsha...
...enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club. Deal...
...19th century Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to America and thought he had the young nation figured out. But Tocqueville never tried out for a porno film. In this documentary series, English-raised Louis Theroux (son of novelist Paul) samples the strangest fruits of freedom, from pitching infomercials to breaking bread with right-wing survivalists. This sort of participational filmmaking can become cute or self-satisfied, but Theroux maintains a curious, never smug attitude, even toward the most bizarre colonists...