Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...CHINATOWN Lack of water as corrupting influence. Sister! Daughter! Desert! Water! Hydrating parched Los Angeles requires incest, murder and slicing up Jack Nicholson's nose...
...seminal cinema-verite documentary An American Family. The Louds were utterly unprepared to become national symbols of suburban angst. "My mom was very proud of the family she had raised," says Lance, now 49. "It ultimately crushed her how much of the show's emphasis was on the divorce." Sister Michele, now 42, remembers the first screening. "The opening title card read An American Family, and then the words cracked and fell to the bottom of the screen," she says. "We all just looked at each other and said, 'Uh-oh.'" Lance, who parlayed his notoriety into a writing career...
...sister wrote it for me. It was the sum of her four years of experience at Harvard, immortalized on printer paper. Its cover was gray paper speckled with crimson (what else?). My roommates and I benefited enormously from its words. Perhaps you might...
...Rooming and Blocking: My sister just happened to meet her future husband on the first day of school, at their first proctor group meeting. They sent the dean flowers when they got married. Her current best friend is her first-year roommate. In general, however, it is a mistake to eye those living in your immediate vicinity as your definite life-long friends. If you have six roommates, odds are that you will love one of them. If you have more than four, it is almost certain that you will grow to despise at least one of them. Take...
Only 17 months my junior, my sister and I have always been a competitive duo. I have never been more jealous of her, however, than when I helped her off to college last September. After all, Erin had her entire college career ahead of her and mine had already been whittled down to a mere three years...