Growing up in Tehran in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Marji of Persepolis learns life's harsh realities through her relatives' political travails: among them, her Marxist uncle Anoush, who suffered first under the Shah, then under the Ayatollahs.
They represent an iridescent glamor achieved through watching her relatives struggle with crack addiction, as well as what the artist calls, "the power of redemption".
This report is based on visits to the places Shamsia passed through and interviews with her relatives and other people who helped her along her journey.
Sekaer's daughter Christina, a psychiatrist in New York who was 5 when her father died, contributed an essay to the High Museum catalog about her efforts to get to know him through his work and her relatives' memories.
In later years however, she became a more stoic, opinionated battle-axe who alienated her relatives through overbearing interference.
I wonder if she also knows that according to 23andMe, SUSAN SARANDON IS A DISTANT RELATIVE through her side of the family!
Through her grandparents and assorted relatives still living in Barranquilla, Ms. Paternostro feels her way through Colombian politics, which can seem like a domestic drama.
She imported her product through a relative of hers known as Uncle Van, who lived in Hong Kong.
Several of the nearly three dozen prospective jurors interviewed behind closed doors on Tuesday in the government's case against Martha Stewart have bought her products, watched broadcast interviews in which she proclaimed her innocence, or had dealings with her or her company through relatives or colleagues, a court transcript released yesterday shows.
This feature is quite important for evaluating pass-through and relative price equilibrium deviations.
It was through a relative on her mother's side, Ralph Watkins, that Ms. Jacobs found her way into the nightclub world, working as a hatcheck girl at Kelly's Stable on 52nd Street, which he owned.
