Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maude Coffin Pratt, focal point of Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...
Tricia on the last day. I took three consciously deep breaths to clear the light-leadedness that had struck me. One ... two ... three. I said aloud "Take three deep breaths." Mama, Julie did so. The Hall seemed overcrowded with humanity...
Stand on name marker. Reach for Mama's hand. Hold it. Applause. Daddy is speaking. People are letting tears roll down their cheeks. Must not look. Must not think...
...Postman Always Rings Twice. At the Central Square, through Saturday at 5:50 and 9:40. With Bloddy Mama...
...where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...