Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Hines said, "They sure messed that boy up," referring to his newly-jailed son. The Hines family has always lived in Decatur's low-income housing projects. The father is retired and his mother has never worked. Their only source of income is Richard's monthly retirement check...
...coxswain, they often laugh a lot. If you've never had to do it, hey, well, it's not a big deal to aim the boat in the right direction and yell at all those rowers. I mean, really, you could stay on the road and yell at your mother at the same time, even when you were just learning to drive, right? Well, almost...
...process succeeds as drama-and a viewer finds himself veering toward mutiny-it is mostly because the two actresses are superb. We feel stingingly the hopeless adoration of the little girl of 30 years ago (played in brief flashback by Linn Ullmann, Liv's daughter) for the glittering mother who ignored her, and the destructive frustration of the mother who could not show the emotion except through the ordered avenues of music...
From Bellow he went on to employ dozens of translators-including Joseph, I.J. Singer's son. Though Isaac Bashevis Singer has long since gained fluency in English, he continues to write in his mother tongue. "It strikes one as a kind of inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels...
...goes. Henry and Julia find the mother lode of gold, romantically as well as financially. Temptations to escape the marriage present themselves to both Henry and Julia, but after initial weakness, man and wife go back to each other in the end. Moone has his way--the couple finally heads south to his beloved Mexico, rather than the City of Brotherly Love, and presumably live prosperously ever after...