Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard Air Force One as a "personal friend to the President." Gregory made his twin-engined Beechcraft available to ferry Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, to a wedding in Fayetteville, N.C., in December. Trinkets from such encounters line Gregory's walls...
...United Nations earlier this month, members of Soviet Diplomat Arkadi Shevchenko's staff were astonished when their ordinarily aloof, impersonal boss confided that he had a grievous family worry: his mother-in-law was so ill that he had to fly home to Moscow. Summoning security guards, Shevchenko ordered his private office sealed. Then the stooped, round-faced Under Secretary-General strolled out of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan and disappeared...
...greed seals the fate of Mother Courage, the lens of the telescope determines the destiny of Galileo. Apart from Socrates' drinking the hemlock, the most vivid martyrdom of truth in the memory of civilized Western man is Galileo's recantation before the Italian Inquisition. The difference between the two is that Socrates could have fled from Athens and refused to do so, and Galileo could have refused to recant but chose to do so. Out of Galileo's dilemma and choice, Brecht fashioned a play of high moral intelligence and lasting pertinence. Unlike some of Brecht...
...Auschwitz, an agnos tic Jew who clings to the ceremonies of her religion in a basement shrine. Momo is not just an abandoned child; he is the son (as one of the film's stagier scenes reveals) of a psychotic pimp who murdered the child's prostitute mother. Momo and Rosa not only get a little help from their friends, they are supported by a black transsexual whore who displays the customary heart of gold...
...good sort. His father, lost in the swamp of his mid-40s, can't quite figure out what's wrong with him. But he senses that the problem has something to do with the generative urge. He speaks with love of his marriage to Claude's mother, and it is clear that the love that is evident within the family has given Claude enough ballast to steady him a bit. The movie's final frames show Claude not with a girlfriend but at a family picnic, watching his father and little sister play catch with...