Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinary, middle-class black housewife and mother. My reaction to Roots was emotional...
...could find, including several former princes who could be counted on to deliver the vote in their old principalities. Sanjay's allies wound up with fewer than ten nominations-one of which, to be sure, went to Sanjay. He will be running for a seat adjoining his mother's in Uttar Pradesh -a fact that strikes many Indians as ironically in keeping with the party's electoral symbol, a cow and a calf. In this case, mother and son are yoked together in what seems, more and more, to be the political campaign of their lives...
...illusionist tricks to convince viewers of the skeleton's reality lends his image a paradoxical strength-that of the throwaway line. One of the most affecting paintings in this show, for the same reason, comes late in Ensor's career, 1915: a portrait of his mother's corpse. At first glance she is mere background, an almost monochrome rumpling of the sheets behind a still life of medicine bottles; to the extent that paint can catch the sour, carbolic odor of a virtuous deathbed, it is done here...
Marriage Revealed. Lesley Stahl, 35, CBS News Washington correspondent; and Aaron Latham, 33, former reporter and author of an upcoming roman à clef (Orchids for Mother) about the CIA; she for the second time, he for the first; on Feb. 17, in Washington, D.C. The couple met in 1973 when Stahl was covering the Senate Watergate hearings for CBS and Latham interviewed her for a New York magazine story...
Miewald pointed out that some South Dakota counties have been declared disaster areas for one reason or another four years in a row. "Are those people in the right line of work?" he asked. "Maybe Mother Nature is trying to tell us something." Americans, Miewald suggested, "might even have to forfeit the sacred right to have a green lawn" when water is scarce for growing wheat. "The era of abundance is over...