Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mother of Parliaments, last week's vote was a moment of almost unparalleled suspense. The dimly lit House overflowed as members crowded every inch of the green-padded benches or sat informally on the floor. In the galleries, peers from the House of Lords stood jammed together like asparagus stalks, while Tory wives watched like Upstairs, Downstairs'aristocracy, waiting for the vote that might cast them and their husbands once again into the front ranks. In the seven-hour debate that preceded the motion, Thatcher led off with a crisp but low-keyed assault on Callaghan for mismanaging...
...good eye for sets and atmosphere, even the ambience of The Champ seems bogus. The low-life Florida sporting hangouts frequented by the champ (Jon Voight) and his son (Ricky Schroder) are a tad too pretty; the extras look like a musical comedy chorus. The florid digs of the mother (Faye Dunaway) are so opulent that one expects Astaire and Rogers to appear on a staircase. Such decorative exaggeration is paralleled by Zeffirelli's treatment of his story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes, the director brings up soppy music...
...Peter" is a "double leg"-both his mother and father went to Brown. He is unexciting but unobjectionable, and his grades and scores are good. "We're trapped," sighs a committee member. There is laughter around the table, but no one doubts that keeping the alumni happy is worth it. After all, they pay for Brown's quality. Peter gets an "A 83"-A for admit; the 83 warns that a lop-off is still possible when Rogers re-examines legacy applications in April. The committee moves on to "John": "Third in his class, 730 verbal, a genuine...
...about 200 will get in. Some will be risks: "Elaine," for instance, has board scores below 400. But she is near the top of her class at a tough inner-city school, and she has been getting up at 6 a.m. to take courses at a nearby college. Her mother is a maid, and she has six siblings, including a brother at Yale. Her essay radiates energy and will. She gets an A 83-admitted, unless Rogers has second thoughts at "minority review": "If we take her, I'm going to grab that grade book a year from...
...knows so well: English suburbia and the slightly sad, but always funny problems of the married, the formerly married and the soon-to-be unmarried. "It is a rich source of comedy," he says. "Everything that is most horrifying and wonderful happens in marriage." He should know. His mother, a novelist, divorced his father, first violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, when Alan, the only child, was five. She married a bank manager, who did not hide his dislike of Alan. They were later divorced...