Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coetzee's darkly convincing narration, Dostoyevsky hears that his 21- year-old stepson Pavel Isaev, who has fallen in with nihilists in Petersburg, has been murdered, perhaps by the police or by his comrades. The writer travels to Petersburg, finds the rooming house where Pavel had lived and -- guilt-haunted because he did not get along well with this difficult son of his dead first wife -- moodily retraces the young man's last months. He tries to retrieve Pavel's papers from the police and is subjected to repeated, insinuating interrogations. He encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev...
...stepmother of Michael Fay, the American teenager who was caned in Singapore after allegedly vandalizing cars. Mrs. Fay was commenting on her stepson's admission to a drug treatment clinic after she caught him inhaling butane gas from pressurized cans...
...stepson of salesmen, Bill Clinton can do the soft sell. And he can do the hard sell...
...Blues Day in Massachusetts--well, for two more hours, anyway--and Tigrett commences the jam. And friends, this is the mother of all blues jams. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and the Blues Brothers Band kick off the show, followed by delta blues musician Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, the Allan Brothers and the Rolling Stones, sweats out the loudest set of the evening. It's already...
...China following the Communist takeover and settled in a poor -- and predominantly black -- neighborhood in San Francisco. When Kai's mother dies, his father brings home a white wife. She institutes a harsh Americanization campaign that bans all Chinese food, language and customs from the house and abandons her stepson to regular beatings at the hands of neighborhood bullies who call him by the humiliating name China Boy. Kai gets little help from his father, who "was in an untenable position, forked on the cultural chessboard where the white squares of intellectual China met the hard black industrial squares...