Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swingin' " all night. The superswingers, of course, were Warbler Frankie Avalon and matured Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, who boogied by the surf in a string of beach party movies. On Nov. 25 a Dick Clark special on NBC will be co-hosted by Funicello, now 36 and the mother of three, and Avalon, 38, father of eight. "The chemistry between us is just dynamic," giggles Funicello. Frankie agrees, and for good reason. Says he appreciatively: "Annette thinks I am the funniest guy in the world. She is a doll baby...
Ingrid Bergman, on her latest role as a too busy career mother in Autumn Sonata: "My friends feel that this is not acting-this...
...kinds of jerry-built structures and subtle gradations of involvement?permanent dates, semimarriages, platonic living together, genteel common-law shackups and serial polygamy. This profusion of mating arrangements brought on wonderfully baroque confusions of protocol: How to seat the husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead of the woman?) and social soaking in hot tubs (keep eye contact at all times...
Americans do not always like to acknowledge class differences, even though one of the purposes of a more invidious etiquette for centuries has been precisely to establish one's own social superiority. "I once said something about the lower class in the hearing of my mother," recalls Social Chronicler Stephen Birmingham...
...Texas mothers, however, are not broadminded. One of them not long ago found that she could not send out any announcements when her daughter was finally married because she had been telling her friends for a year that her daughter was married to the man she was living with. A woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room...