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Word: mama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although her clients are mostly "new" Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet and Sour Sue | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...sing Mama, looking alone at Toshi and Kwan" Bernice Reagon...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: Tryin' To Make It Real | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Cause ain't nobody free." from 'Blues for Mama...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: Tryin' To Make It Real | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...School, and Elvia called her mother, Mrs. Ovidea Munoz, 53, a cleaning woman with six children. Mrs. Munoz snatched up Amando's baptismal certificate, got a ride in a friend's old car, and barreled off to the border to retrieve her son. "Don't cry, Mama, I'm back," said Amando. "Let me cry," said Mrs. Munoz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ODYSSEYS: Amando Come Home | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Even with the promise of four more years of Nixonomics there is no reason to give the owners of Mama-Leone's a break. Save your money and walk up Cambridge Street to an Italian bakery and buy a loaf of bread and a dozen canoles...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: Mama Leone's | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

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