Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FROM THE TIME my parents dropped me off with all the other parents and all the other college boys and girls, the great expectations had begun to crumble. I had never felt so strange since my mother turned me loose on the first day of kindergarten...
...wrote my will. Left everything to my little brother, and told him not to be so stupid. Mother was right. These drugs were kicking in my brains, and they had won. All those queer movies, they must have been right. I was dying. I looked out the window and saw that it was night. When I looked again, it was day. I called the phone company, and they said it was day. Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged...
Linda Manz. "I didn't have to act. I just did it. I was brought up scared, so I act scared." Linda Manz, a street-corner scuffler with old eyes, whose half-deaf mother worked as a cleaning woman in Manhattan, tells about her first film role as Richard Gere's kid sister in Days of Heaven. "Ursula was the name of the character at first, but they changed it to Linda, 'cause it was me. It ain't no girl in the 1900s." The film is a strange, dreamlike reminiscence of days when migrant harvesters followed steam-driven threshing...
...just her 4-ft. 10-in. height that makes her seem younger; her emotions have only just begun to unfold. She has not seen any big money yet. She gives a child's answers to an interviewer's questions. What role would she like best? "A mother, where I could be in control, be in charge." She admires take-charge actors?John Wayne, Jane Fonda...
Meanwhile, there were intimations of dark things from abroad. Lord of the Flies featured an island full of shipwrecked kids enacting a parable of original sin, and Our Mother's House was populated by a family of true charmers who kept their dead mother's body in the garden...