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...Japanese royal family had a ball at the Gakushuin Kindergarten annual autumn games when four-year-old Prince Aya managed to take the play away from one of his classmates right in front of his proud oapa-san and mama -Crown Prince Akihite and Princess Michiko...
Haggard's Mama's Hungry Eyes and Okie from Muskogee locate themselves in the center of this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...
Joplin, whose singles "Piece of My Heart," "Maybe," "One Good Man," and whose albums, "Cheap Thrills" and "I Got Them Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama," made her the undisputed star of white blues singers, was the second rock superstar in a month to die of an overdose of drugs...
When Elliott was 81, Mama decided that elocution
...lessons might help him to relax. She chose Charlie Lowe's Broadway show business school for kids. Charlie remembers her visit: "Fix up his diction," she said. "Sure," said Charlie. "We'll give him a little drama, teach him to sing, teach him to dance." "He'll never dance," Mama told Charlie firmly. "Just fix the diction." Charlie ignored her ("We do that") and put Elliott through the regular Lowe routine. "That meant everything," Gould recalled to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "Blow-your-nose lessons, dance lessons, wipe yourself lessons, masturbation lessons, bunko. Compulsions for a dissatisfied mother...