Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, but she had a chronic runny nose. She had to blow it so much it completely messed up her social life. But her real trouble wasn't her nose at all: her father & mother had always treated her as a boy and the otherwise normal young woman used her sniffles as a subterfuge to keep young men at arm's length. When she realized what was really the matter with her, her nose stopped running. And eventually she married happily...
...just never grew up. There was the married man, for example, with three children. He had diarrhea for no physical reason. The psychosomatic reason: his parents had never shown him much attention except once when he had typhoid fever (characterized by diarrhea). His wife, a woman very like his mother, and his children never gave him much notice either. Hence his diarrhea, an unconscious play for attention...
...very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn't play a trick like that, argues Major Highet...
Actress Bergman is mainly responsible. As Clio Dulaine, exiled with her mother to Paris by her father's starchy family, she returns to New Orleans after her mother's death with her pretty teeth sharpened for revenge. She gets it by the rather oversimple expedient of making a public scandal of herself with a Texas gambler named Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper). But Clio's calculated bitchery proves too much for the simple gamblin' man who wanders in & out of her bedroom like a cow-country Casanova. He checks out for Saratoga, which seems to be full...
...Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...