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...best he can. Donning a lion mask and faux-ermine cape he begins to think of himself as "the groundskeeper." But Thomas' uncle soon discovers the dysfunction and one day Thomas comes home to find his father packing to check himself into a clinic. After moving in with his aunt and uncle, Thomas devises to break his father out, a scheme his father plays along with, resulting in a briefly happy reunion that ultimately turns tragic...
...tone of the father's state of mind. When Thomas arrives, the colors brighten. At other times the drawing style will "degrade" to a child-like simplicity where all the characters are animals. These sequences act as little metaphors for the dramas in Thomas' mind, as when his aunt and uncle conspire to feed him mush that will make him love them. Hornschemeier has a sharp sense for the aesthetics of comics. In spite of its themes of guilt and sadness, "Mother" has some lovely images and a fascinating color palette...
When Patti LaBelle first learned that she had Type 2 diabetes 10 years ago, the news hit her, she says, like "a death sentence." The soul singer, 59, had reason to be concerned. Her aunt and grandmother died of diabetes, and her mother Bertha lost her legs to it before she died at 65. But survival in the face of long odds is a recurring theme in LaBelle's Grammy-winning career, so her thoughts soon turned from whether she was going to die to how she was going to live--and, more particularly, what she was going...
...wants to increase the prices of their shopping baskets at Wal-Mart has been smoking. (The giant retailer expects to buy $15 billion of products from China this year.) If the quota limits Wal-Mart's supply of goods, then the Chinese-made robe you were going to buy Aunt Jane for Christmas might not be there...
...angry about the recent burglary of his apartment, he blamed it all on the Roma, 150,000 of whom live on the margins of Italian society. The man found his target in a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the capital: an 11-year-old boy, walking with his aunt. He pulled up and shot the boy in the face. The boy's injury was minor, but the emotional trauma of having a gun fired in his face was not. His aunt went to the police and complained, but she did not file a written report - a frequent problem that...