Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voters who try to discern sharp ideological distinctions between him and Gantt will be disappointed. As a result, the primary race is mainly a battle of images. Gantt, who grew up poor, lards his campaign speeches with inspirational stories about his ill-educated, hardworking father (a mechanic) and his "Mama [who] fed us values." Sanders, who taught medicine at Harvard, ran Massachusetts General Hospital, became vice chairman of Squibb Corp. and later CEO and chairman of the giant pharmaceutical company Glaxo, presents himself as a serious, concerned authority figure...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
...father in a song called Where Were You, released only in Europe (where Rucker says he figured his dad would never hear it). "Where were you when I needed a friend?/ Where were you when I kissed my very first girl?" he sings to his absentee father. "Go away/ Mama didn't want you/ So I don't need...
...particularly handsome, yet he gets Valentine's Day and get-well cards--and poems--from women of all ages. His breeding is nice though hardly impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa was a rolling stone named Palace Music. Only 18 months ago, Cigar was a nondescript bay five-year-old with two victories in 13 starts. Today he is the nicest thing to happen to horse racing since Secretariat...
...family, unless I become a teacher, which I'm not sure I will. I don't want to put my kids in day care from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, but what's the option for a two-career family? A nanny whom the kids will call "Mama"? I certainly don't want to become like the New Yorker's Sera, who went from extremes at work to extremes with her children...