Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hussein's courtship of Lisa Halaby was a whirlwind affair that spanned only ten weeks before he proposed and she accepted. After graduating from Princeton in 1974 with a degree in architecture, she took a job with an airlines service company in which her father holds an interest; a year ago she landed a position as designer and decorator for Alia,* the Royal Jordanian Airlines. Lisa first met the King three months ago,.when she and her visiting father were royal house guests at the winter palace in Aqaba. The twosome quickly discovered a common interest in sailing, skiing...
...film editor who walks up to Momo in a Paris park, tells him he is the most beautiful child in Paris and asks him to talk to her. He does until she says something disturbing at which point he leaves--only to return to her months later when his father, newly released from a psychiatric hospital, dies on Madame Rosa's floor...
...MOMO'S FATHER killed his mother out of jealousy; he was deemed insane and locked away. On his release he seeks his son. Madame Rosa, trying to protect Momo both for his sake and, selfishly, for hers, tricks the man into believing she had mistakenly raised his son as an Orthodox Jew upon which he violently protests, convulses and dies...
...death is the turning point in the movie. Not only does Momo realize Madame Rosa knew who his parents were all along but he has to witness the ugly scene of his father's death. He hardens--perhaps because Madame Rosa's credibility has been shaken, perhaps because he discovers his father was less than a nobody. At any rate, he reaches into the dead man's pocket, out of Madame Rosa's sight, finds a cigarette and begins to smoke. He smokes again at Madame Nadine's when he is talking into her friend's tape-recorder reciting...
...they have long left virtually unfilled what could, theoretically, prove the most fertile field of all-malpractice suits by children against their own parents. Now one Tom Hansen, 24, of Boulder, Colo., is bringing what may be called a "serpent's tooth suit"* against his mother and father...