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sylvia
proper noun
Short for Princess Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
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Besides "Rings", Gwyneth Paltrow's movie about Sylvia Plath, "Sylvia", was shot on location in New Zealand, as was a new Tom Cruise epic, "The Last Samurai".
After Sylvia died, I didn't want our sons to be burdened with admin after my death, so I cashed in my life insurance policy and paid a £20,000 lump sum to the American cryonics company.
Twenty years later, I was running an old people's home in Brighton with my wife, Sylvia, and saw a TV programme that mentioned cryonics, the practice of freezing people in the hope that they might one day be brought back to life.
Sylvia and I were married for 46 years and I miss her desperately.
Cue a mournful song in which he doesn't even get to say goodbye before Sylvia leaves.
And then there is Dr Hyman, who develops a relationship with Sylvia that crosses the boundaries between medic and patient.
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It is unusual, though, to see a jacket toned down rather than sexed up in a books world where the biggest news of the week looks likely to be EL James's announcement that she'll be telling the story of a BDSM relationship from the man's point of view in Grey, and where even Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has had the chick lit treatment.
"The script was bland, American money got involved, and I couldn't control it, so I dropped out," he says of the Sylvia Plath biopic he was at one point attached to.
Reid published Hughes's award-winning Birthday Letters, his poems about his relationship with Sylvia Plath.
The quartet - Naomi Long (East Belfast, Alliance), Sylvia Hermon (North Down, Independent), Michelle Gildernew (Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Sinn Fein) and Margaret Ritchie (South Down, SDLP) - could be said to cross the (alleged) cultural divide.
The judges chose Sylvia Rowley as the winner in the amateur category; she writes here about the oppression, and resulting HIV risk, experienced by men in India who have sex with other men.
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