Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of this is so amazing, of course, except for the fact that in addition to a mother who joined the Peace Corps at 68, one sister who's a faith healer and another who rides a motorcycle, Billy Carter's brother happens to be President of the United States. The cult that has sprung up around the First Family derives its strength in part from the novelty of that incongruence...
...shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam, a student named Juan, to descent into the garden from his garret room next door...
...their respective memoirs. His book will begin at the time Nixon selected him as Vice President and will concentrate largely on the events of his presidency. Hers will be a more personal memoir, a candid look at her struggle to balance her roles as public figure, wife and mother. No unseemly family rivalry is likely: the double contract with Co-Publishers Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest will yield the two Fords a cool $1 million...
LESLEY STAHL, 35, is telegenic disproof of the premise that girls who wear glasses seldom get studio passes. She has resisted suggestions from her bosses at CBS-and her mother-that she replace her horn-rims with contact lenses. After Stahl's first network stand-up report, her mother complained from Boston: "Sixty million Americans saw you tonight. One of them was my future son-in-law, but he's never going to call you for a date because you wore glasses!" Actually Stahl, who now makes more than $50,000 a year...
...visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly played by Claire Bloom) and decides to return to the U.S. On the way, he is fatally caught up in the smuggling of Jewish war refugees by small boat into Cuba...