Word: talled
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Egan's heroines spend their days fixating on other women. In Letter to Josephine, Lucy, a wealthy housewife on holiday with her husband, obsesses over a tall young woman she notices on the beach and takes to spying on. In the process Lucy comes to believe that this apparition is the passionate, sexually confident woman she, Lucy, will never be. A year later she thinks she has spotted the woman again but can't be sure, sparking a series of reflections--on the woman, on the vacation, on her life of privileged frustration--that force Lucy to confront the emptiness...
...stern as he was, Bob came to embrace a wounded mother and her young son. Kit was 16 when she fell for a tall, strapping 18-year-old named Newt McPherson. They got married on Sept. 12, 1942. The day after the wedding, Kit knew she had made a mistake. She says that one morning when she tried to wake McPherson for work, after he had stayed out drinking the night before, he struck her. She left immediately; the couple broke up within days after the marriage. But Kit was already pregnant. On June 17, 1943, almost nine months...
...local police to stay on the case. "She'd be a good cop," says Miami homicide detective Jack Calvar. "She knows how to work the system." Her voluminous notes and recordings of Johnson calls will be key to the trial. "She's tiny, just about 5 ft. tall, but she'll blow your head off," says Calvar. "I think she wants [Blair's] head--understandably...
...PAID ANNE SCHEIBER MUCH mind when she was alive. If anyone at all noticed her outside her Manhattan studio apartment, the frugal spinster, a mere five feet tall, was always dressed in the same cheap black coat and hat. She never bought a stick of furniture. She rarely bought a newspaper. But she did read one diligently. Every so often she would venture out to the local library where she could read the Wall Street Journal without paying for it. And on her little noticed journeys outside her apartment, she would also visit her stockbroker. When she died...
Members of PBHA have said this tall that the administration did not adequately consider student input in choosing Kidd over long-time PBHA Executive Director Greg A. Johnson '72. A rally last Thursday drew about 700 students and a myriad of community leaders in support of PBHA's stance against the administration...