Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...except for a bunch of minor league ball players propped up behind the revolving merry-go-round bar playing "flick the cockroach." A big Thurman Munson clone walked up to me wearing a Harley-Davidson t-shirt and yelled in my ear that I wasn't drinking enough. A "Mother Harley" tattoo embellished his hefty forearm, set flatly in front...
...Smith said that this year a student whose mother had telephoned him to ask whether he wanted the "survival kit" remembered last year's incidents and called the police...
...Home provided a welcome shelter from the abuse and neglect of his natural parents who had scarred his early childhood. No wonder he wishes to be a "great fixer;" he spent his second year of life hospitalized for surgery, abandoned by his mother, and was later beaten and burned by his father. This sort of experience is common to many of the children there...
...care for the children--though of course we do that. It's a place to be a child. It's a neutral setting where they don't have to feel guilty about living in a foster family, nor do they have to call the ambulance, or pick up Mother at the bar. It also is to restore self-worth; they are worth caring for, and that's why they're here. Sometimes I look at them and think, wow, how can they cope? They have a real sense of abandonment. This is a fear we all have had: Whose...
...Malle and Scenarist Polly Platt have hypothesized a romance-and eventual marriage-between Heroine Violet (Brooke Shields) and E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine), the legendary photographer of Storyville's glory days. This couple's bizarre March-December affair, like the equally promising relationship between Violet and her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon), is described only intermittently. Instead of coming to terms with the characters' emotions, Malle dithers away his movie on rowdy sequences that depict the upstairs-downstairs antics of his oldtime sporting-house setting. Despite Sven Nykvist's fine cinematography and a rousing jazz score, a little...