Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plume de Ma Tante (written by Robert Dhery; music by Gerard Calvi) speaks a kind of compound-fractured English. But in all other respects it is as engagingly French as it is abundantly funny...
...American reviews of a book of mine [Tomorrow Is Mañana-Aug. 11,] my husband, my children and myself were suddenly given 72 hours to get out of Spain forever. We had to leave paintings, books, poor old Lobo (our dog) and much else behind...
...slow and inept, and Doris blew up like a temperamental movie director. "Do it like this," she cried. "An explorer that starts with M?" She snapped her fingers, tore at her hair, looked agonized, then beamed and shouted: "Oh, that must be the guy they named the straits after-Ma, Ma something. Oh yeah! Magellan. See? You gotta ham it up. Don't just blurt it out. Hold it back, stretch for it. But whatever you do, say something! Give it the old bedazz. You can't just sit there like big blobs of liver...
...neighbors can see. the Duvals have a happy home, but the neighbors don't know the rest of it: the husband keeps a girl on the side. Ma knows that something is going on, what with him out every night and coming home high all the time. The kids know, too, but they never let on to Pa, and Ma never really lets on to herself. "If you keep calm," she likes to say, "everything will turn out for the best...
Family gatherings are generally pretty uncomfortable at the Duvals'-the night of Pa's birthday, for instance. Ma bakes him a big cake with 45 candles and gets presents for all the kids to give him, but when Pa turns up he's in a bad mood, and grouches around and says to hurry up supper, he has to go out that night. At table he argues with the girl about her latest beau and gets into the usual back-and-forth with the oldest boy about the business. Finally, it all winds...