Word: brenda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...
...Brenda L. Buttner grew up in Watsonville. But she's an exception to the town's often unhappy rules. She's graduating from Harvard. And she'll be attending Oxford University next year on a Rhodes Scholarship...
This Is the Child is all the more powerful for its lack of calculation. Terry Pringle writes about his son's battle against leukemia with unadorned honesty. In 1980 Pringle, an Abilene, Texas, insurance claims adjuster, his wife Brenda and their two sons, Michael, 6, and Eric, 4, are plucked from their ordinary lives of Star Wars, shopping malls and Sunday school. In Houston's huge and hectic Tex as Children's Hospital, Eric, comforted by a Han Solo toy, endures daily blood drawings from his hands, spinal taps, radiation and chemotherapy. Although ravaged by treatment...
...player wants to stand in the wings forever, and the wait can be almost unbearable. "Will they love me? Hate me? Will I make a fool of myself? Those doubts go to bed with you, wake up with you, walk around the streets of New York with you," says Brenda Pressley of Dreamgirls. "It's a constant battle, and it can beat you if you let it." Some do let it, and along with the stories of the little understudy who could, there are legends of the little stand-ins who couldn't. Once, long ago, that...
That possibility is always a worry. "I don't like to see a child have to get up and testify," says Brenda Watson, a founder of the West Linn, Ore., firm that makes the anatomically correct dolls. "But what happened to him or her was worse. The only way to protect the children is to go through the judicial system." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Laura Meyers/Los Angeles