Word: mother
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George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...support from environmentalists by backing strong restrictions on motorboats in northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. He has gained favor among right-to-lifers by offering to introduce a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape or incest or when necessary to save the mother's life. These are issues on which Anderson has alienated voters by trying to compromise...
...experience shared by all the women was the trauma of both living and breaking with traditional roles as wives, lovers and mothers. Marguerite was living in the South, working on dead-end jobs, when she decided to return to school. Her son, Kristopher, was born three weeks before her first final exams at a small southern college, and his birth marked a change in Marguerite's life. "I wasn't aware of my abilities, and then I found myself doing impossible things. My mother-in-law couldn't believe I was going to school. She thought that was an awful...
There are difficulties involved in being both mother and student, these women knew. But still, each woman emphasized how Harvard, or at least college, was one of the best things that had happened in their lives. For all four, it has been important to break out of the lives they were leading. And, as Katiti said, other women, other mothers, might benefit, as well: "Women aren't just 18 year olds. There are women out there in the community who have the ability, but are living in homes that they use as a sanctuary. It is easy to hide...
Willem de Kooning's "July 1956" is one of the better pieces in the show. Also included are two smaller do Kooning works. The 1950 "Reclining Woman" relates to his famous "woman" series. Some art historians speculate that de Kooning's mother inspired that series. If this is so, he must not have had a very happy relationship with her because he portrays her in a less than flattering manner...