Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YOUR GRANDFATHER'S a king, your father's a drunk, your mother's a thief and you're a gypsy, your situation is unbearable but inescapable. Not only do you have the same exotic blood they do but you have the same light fingers. You're stuck...
...said a CIA press spokesman. He was an intelligence analyst. Moreover, he had retired from the agency in 1974. The CIA had no quarrel with Maryland state police theories that Paisley had committed suicide. Six months before his death, he had left his wife of 19 years-the mother of his two children-and developed a close relationship with another woman. He had been depressed over his personal life and had been seeing a psychiatrist...
...Spam's Basque region with weapons bought from the proceeds of bank robberies and extortion. They are mostly young, middle class, Marxist-Leninist in ideology. They carry out their bloody missions skillfully-eight political killings so far this year 63 last year-if sometimes reluctantly Says the mother of one: "My son did not enjoy killing, but he thought that otherwise nothing could be accomplished." Their acronym, ETA (for Euzkadi ta Azkatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Liberty), has become synonymous with terror in Spain. Their goal: an independent state composed of the four predominantly Basque provinces in Spam...
This ecumenical approach to music -some might call it anthropological -probably came from his mother's side of the family. "They'd lost most of their Scottish-German traditions," Bok recalls. "But they'd sing anything. Scottish, South African, Jewish, anything." On his dad's side, there is the Curtis Institute of Music, founded by his grandmother. Grandfather Edward Bok was part of Curtis Publishing and longtime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. He wrote an autobiography called The Americanization of Edward Bok, which Gordon had to read in school. His father Cary William...
Such is the basis of Peter Weir's new film The Last Wave, a rather stodgy thriller involving Aborigines, magic, secret underground cities, and Mother Nature at her most perverse. This is Weir's fourth film, the first to be released in this country, and in it he shows a keen sense of how to create suspense, and an unnerving inability to deliver. His first talent makes Weir one of the more innovative filmmakers around, with a vivid imagination and the ability to infuse the most commonplace events with an eerie sense of the unknown. His second talent, however, consistently...