Word: mama
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Maupiti is also very isolated. Only four other foreigners--a pair of Canadian college students and a German couple--came to the island the entire time we were there. We all stayed at Maupiti's only hotel, "Mama Roro's," which is run by a little old Tahitian woman called Mama Roro...
There actually was a cute little pig on Maupiti. It lived in a pen behind Mama Roro's, and on the third day we were there it was served for dinner in honor of a son's wedding. Accompanied by a delicious sweet squash dish, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my entire life...
...shots for Oscar nominations, make for two splendid carnivores; they both have scintillating street wit and legs that go on for days. Cusack, as the would-be lion tamer, naturally gets devoured. And a swell sight it is too, a mother consuming her young, for the same reason a mama scorpion does: she's hungry. That's Jim Thompson's world, and now Hollywood is welcome...
...racist casting." This kind of response to this kind of statement is understandable, even laudable. But Pachter never makes this accusation. He instead writes that the two Black, non-chorus players were given "degrading roles for Black actors to play." Actress Lenore Jones was given the role of Mama, whom Pachter calls "sick and lecherous," and actor Tym Tombar was given the role of Amos, whom Pachter calls "simple, subservient, and constantly humiliated by his white, adulterous wife...
...while we're at it: What did the Mama Pajama see Julio and his friend doing down by the schoolyard? How come we can call you Al? And in this new song The Obvious Child, what is the cross doing in the ball park...