Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinks specifically of Truffaut), and Saurus's juxtaposition of perspectives promises to be particularly thought-provoking. Critics have been heralding soulful-eyed Ana Torrent, who plays the disillusioned daughter, as the most self-possessed child actress to come along in yeas, and Geraldine Chaplin as the lonely, dying mother is said to give her most mature and affecting performance...
...Israeli perception is basically correct. Ever since his Clinton, Mass., call last March for a Palestinian "homeland," Jimmy Carter has become more and more convinced that the Palestinian issue is, as President Hafez Assad of Syria calls it, "the mother question" in the Middle East...
Then in 1897, at 21, Jack London, along with a small army of fellow American misfits, took off for the Klondike. A year later he returned with only $4.50 worth of gold dust, but he had struck a mother lode in himself. He discovered he was a writer. After a few short stories in the manner of an Alaskan Rudyard Kipling, he scribbled a rattling yarn about a sled dog named Buck who, when his master was killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made...
...snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that...
...club is dominated by women who are "into the housewife and mother thing," she added...