Word: mama
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shock me that some of the retired Jews in Palm Beach may have miscast their votes. Although both of my grandmothers, who live just a few miles south of Palm Beach, know more about politics than any person with a job, they are stymied by technology. My maternal grandmother, Mama I, is so defiantly anti-VCR and cell phone that whenever she reaches her friend Roz's answering machine, she hangs up on it and says, "What does she need with that for? Like she's some big business executive...
...Still, Mama I, who often calls me by the names of her other grandchildren, Lisa and Julie, was pretty sure the Palm Beach Buchanan votes needed to be reconsidered. "How could you believe that what's his name got so many votes?" she asked. She would not admit that the old people were to blame for their inability to read a basic form, though she did concede to trouble with other basic skills. "Driving. Oh, boy! You could write a book about that," she said. "They go where they want to go, that's all there is to it. They...
...father's mom, Mama Ann, who lives just a few miles from Mama I, also blamed the ballots. "I tell you the machines are really a horror here," she said. "The lighting is bad. When you get older, you can't see well. I'm going to have to have these cataracts done one of these days...
...turns out that voter fraud runs both ways. "The woman next to me couldn't see," Mama Ann told me. "The workers talk to one another. They don't pay attention. So I walked into her booth and punched Gore for her without anybody looking." This is going to be a long, drawn-out legal process...
...tale of a young woman who is held captive by a crooked mother-and-son team who attempt to convince her that she's the son's mentally unstable wife, "Julia Ross" is distinguished by topnotch camerawork and George Macready?s over-the-top turn as the middle-aged mama's boy who likes to play with his pocket knife. "So Dark the Night", on the other hand, is a masterful little whodunit about a French detective who faces the biggest puzzle of his career. The denouement of this forgotten gem is so potent that it was later used...