Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOTHER COURAGE, Bertolt Brecht's treatise portraying common man as war's much-buffeted victim, will be modernized for its presentation in the bucolic setting of Castleton College, Castleton, Vt. (July 15-26). George Tabori directs a cast that includes Wife Viveca Lindfors as Mother, Sam Schacht, Rudy Bond, Julie Garfield and Pat Suzuki as the whore, Yvette...
...friends are "Chicanos" I include my dentist, my accountant, numerous attorney buddies, a fair number of local politicians, a couple of really good auto mechanics, a lady who runs an outstanding Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, the former sheriff of Los Angeles county, five judges, numerous cops and my mother...
...Miss Hart also doubles as the show's choreographer, I couldn't help but sympathize with her. One of my more Portnoy-esque childhood memories is of a kindergarten pageant where I, part of a chorus line, was supposed to dance the Irish jig. No matter how both my mother and the teacher pleaded, I could never manage the damn thing and botched it terribly. When this cast joins in a grand chorus line, all dancing--after just a few hesitations--pretty competently, I could really appreciate the achievement. The cast does less well with their brogues. None could hang...
Poisonous Broth. More widespread than radioactive fallout, DDT is found in every kind of aquatic life and in almost every animal. Even mother's milk exhibits traces of DDT two or three times as high as the maximum standard for cow's milk set by the Food and Drug Administration. In any other container, a current quip has it, mother's milk would be prohibited from crossing state lines...
...embryo, on the other hand, dies almost immediately when it begins to absorb the pesticide through the fatty yolk sac. In birds, DDT kills off the young by interfering with the female's egg-laying process. Though the exact chemistry is still obscure, the pesticide apparently sends the mother bird's liver into a frenzy of enzyme production. The excess enzymes break down such steroids as estrogen that are essential to the manufacture of calcium. Lacking adequate calcium, the bird's eggs emerge thin-shelled and flaky, offering scant protection for the embryo. In at least...