Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, the Harvard defense summoned up a truly classic inspirational effort and blocked two Oregon field goal attempts and repulsed another sally deep into their won territory. Harvard's star player Arnold Horween kicked the extra point to provide the margin of victory and Sadow persuaded his mother to name his younger brother Arnold after...
Once the drawings were approved, it took Rambaldi three months to build the alien that emerges from the mother ship to greet Truffaut. Spielberg and the crew nicknamed him Puck. The other aliens were propelled by simple machinery or by dwarfs, but Puck was animated in the same way that King Kong II was, through a combination of mechanical and hydraulic gadgets. There were even artificial tendons in his face, and by pushing levers 45 feet away, an operator could make Puck do everything but scratch his stomach and laugh like Santa Claus. "He doesn't have a wide...
This handsome hulk of a capitalist-benefactor was born in a boxcar, son of an Italian immigrant mother and a French-Italian father en route to a railroad job in California. Mama and Papa Lavette perish in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Daniel is left with his father's small boat and a shockproof will to rise in the world. He is a tough, practical, democratic cuss who cares little for racial, religious or class barriers. To keep track of his profitable fishing venture, he hires a Chinese bookkeeper and later takes a Jewish business partner. An unselfconscious...
...growing seminary in Crestwood, N.Y., is not fluent in Russian. An open, easy man, whose main passions besides the church are music, gardening and cars, he is more a pastoral than an intellectual churchman. Among other assignments, he revived once-flagging Orthodox parishes in Alaska, where the Russian mother church set up its first North American outpost in the 18th century...
Palau was born into a middle-class Argentine family, and his father died when he was ten. He wanted to become a lawyer to help out widows like his mother; instead he had to work in a bank to support the family. Though baptized a Catholic, Palau attended a tiny Evangelical chapel and was educated at an Anglican college. He began small-time preaching stints as a youth. Later he attended Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Ore., where he now lives with his American wife Pat and their four sons...