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...with her mother, who raised her in Brooklyn, N.Y., and could be critical of her work, eased over the years. At a 1994 comeback concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Barbra greeted her mother in the second row and asked, "Are you proud of me now, Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 15, 2002 | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...Sidney has a kvetching mama, who calls him way too often, and a scrupulous kid brother Mike. In the movie, they are sensibly excised as being useless to our understanding of Sidney. This creature didn't come out of a womb but from under a rock. He has no lineage; he created himself, in the dark, dank, rank cave of his ambitions. The film is interested only in how he gets by in this "dog-eat-dog" world. ("Every dog will have his day," says the movie Sidney, who's full of animal metaphors.) At its black heart, "Sweet Smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sweet Smells | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

...conception, filial ties and friendships. While suggested by the pure form of her sculptures, von Rydingsvard also explicitly references these subjects through titles. The name of the monolithic, honeycombed work “For Paul” references the artist’s husband. “Mama, Your Legs” harkens to something more elemental, as the artist herself has commented...

Author: By Karl A. Hinojosa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sculpting Humanity from Wood | 3/15/2002 | See Source »

...Mama San sighs. Conveniently ignoring her silver Mercedes parked outside, she says she makes nothing from prostitution. She is in it because she cares. She takes the girls in, puts a roof over their heads. "What can I do? Somebody has to protect them." Her conscience will not let the two girls go for anything less than 41,500 baht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Bought Two Slaves, To Free Them | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Done. We shake hands. Tip and Lek have been sold. Again. This time to Jonathan, the photographer working on this story, and me. Mama San is not worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Bought Two Slaves, To Free Them | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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