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...movie traces Foster's coming of age as he emerges from the security of his parent's Kansas farm into the middle of a shootout on the streets of New York City and, eventually, into the seductive claws of his nymphomaniac aunt. She's not the only one warm for Fox's form, though. Beautiful blond heads begin to turn the moment Foster alights from his Manhattan-bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Secret of My Success | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

...Well, this morning I was asleep on the couch, and my aunt said, 'what are you doing today?' She told me to come down here and try out--it was a toss-up between this and basketball--I guess this won," said Lee St. Louis of Lawrence...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Standing Around On The Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...condition of the royal cousins hushed up? If so, it may have been the work of a former Countess of Strathmore, a paternal aunt, who periodically updated the family's entry in Burke's. Buckingham Palace remained tight- lipped on the matter. But Elizabeth Norman, head of the hospital's auxiliary, said she wrote to the Queen Mother about her nieces in 1982 and received a reply. In it, said Norman, the Queen Mum expressed surprise at the news that the two were still alive, and sent money to buy them gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in The Family | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...appears, at first glimpse, an unlikely focus for any story with epic intentions. Hillela Capran comes onstage as an aimless teenager with a penchant for trouble. Effectively orphaned by the breakup of her parents' marriage, the girl proves to be too much for either of her mother's sisters, Aunt Olga and Aunt Pauline, to control. Nothing seems to register with the child, not Olga's antique collecting and social climbing, not Pauline's furious campaigning for black civil rights and social progress. When Pauline discovers Hillela in bed with her son Sasha, the welcome at the last possible adoptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...that all the yuppies cruising the Square with more money than I have should be buying this guy's coffee. Or I figure--also justifiably--that I just can't give every time I am asked. I'd be asked more often, for one thing. (I think of my aunt who is so in touch with her fellow man that she gets her car windows washed at least seven or eight times every time she drives through the Bowery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUARE LIFE: | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

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