Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WARNING! the first page of the first issue shouted in January 1977. RAPE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE WILL BE PUNISHED! The declared policy of the editor-reporter-printer is to "expose and ridicule examples of jargon, faulty syntax, redundancy" and any "outrage against English" practiced by Glassboro State memo writers, especially those in high places...
Among other commutations signed by Blanton last week was one for Katie Browder Stricklin, 40, convicted in 1972 for the strychnine poisonings of her mother and father-in-law. She had been acquitted of killing her father and mother-in-law, despite indications that their deaths also resulted from poisoning...
During the movie we see Dave grow up. He hates his father (Judd Hirsch), who is a good-for-nothing drunk, while his mother (Susan Sarandon) keeps the family going with her stealing and her fortune- telling--which amounts to the same thing. His sister (Brooke Shields) is a beauty, with a mind of her own that you never see but which Dave assures us it there. She is destined to be sold into marriage at age 12 to an obese little boy. Her betrothal exemplifies gypsy life for Dave--his mother was stolen as a child; now his sister...
...gypsy, dreams of California. And, typically, neither the romance nor the emigration can ever come to pass. Although Groffo's hired killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon, his mother's friend, who has had her eyes on him for a while. After washing his wound she puts Zharko's medallion--which Dave is conveniently carrying-- around his neck. He doesn't object. Nor does he object to her affection--thus he returns to the gypsy fold...
...that runs through the movie is Dave's disgust with the outmoded, conniving ways of the gypsies. If he has any mission it is to "bring the gypsies into the twentieth century." Fittingly he is the only gypsy with an American name other than Sharon. Dave, Tita, Rosa (their mother), and Groffo fit the older brother, younger sister, mother- and-father pattern of the ideal American family, despite their infighting...