Word: mama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Springing from the complicated relationship between pampered Jewish boy and his doting, suffocating mother, shiksa-ism sees the mama's boy hunting outside the tribe partly in spite and partly to assert his independence...
...Thar was three bars--Mama Bar, Papa Bar, and Baby Bar. They was all sittin' on a block of ice. Mama Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Papa Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Baby Bar looked up and said 'My tale is told...
...over at the M&I International food store, women who spent last summer in Odessa this summer buy kapchonka (dried fish), Yugoslavian black-currant syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian figs in syrup. Compared with the big chain stores, bodegas are expensive but friendly, loose, Latin. "If you needed five cents," says the Cuban owner...
Gloria Sr. was 19 when she gave birth in 1924; less than two years later, Little Gloria's father, Reggie Vanderbilt, died of inadequacy and excess, burned out at 44. Mama, a society beauty with the social conscience of a moth, fluttered from Europe to the U.S. and back again. Little Gloria became a piece of human luggage, shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then...
...killer shadows. They dissolved by day into the villages, into the other Vietnamese. They maddened the Americans with the mystery of who they were--the unseen man who shot from the tree line, or laid a wire across the trail with a Claymore mine at the other end, the mama-san who did the wash, the child concealing a grenade...