Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hornstein's mother Vera, father Alex, and brother Avi sat in the front row as the congregation listened to speakers paint a picture of an ambitious youth devoted to Israeli and Jewish issues...
When he was five, his mother walked out, taking Hall and moving in with his grandmother, who lived around the corner. Thereafter Hall's childhood was a disjointed and lonely one. "Teachers would write on my report card, 'Arsenio needs attention. Is there anything you can do about it?' " Yet his grades were good, and he avoided drugs in high school -- though he admits to a rebellious period as a senior. "You couldn't get close to him," remembers Marjorie Banks, his old Sunday school teacher and the wife of former Chicago Cubs star Ernie Banks. "When you talked...
...Fernando Valley, decorated in blue and filled with electronic gear. ("I'm very high-tech oriented. I wouldn't have a TV without doors that open electronically.") His garage houses two cars: a white 1986 Jaguar XJS and a Mustang convertible. He stays in close touch with his mother, who is a big fan ("No one barks louder at my show than my mom") and for whom he bought a condo in West Hollywood. For relaxation, Hall tried painting for a while but gave it up; took tennis lessons but "hated them." Says he: "I'm not an outdoor person...
February 3: The Crimson celebrates a visit from Mrs. Hartje, mother of Tod, with a 7-2 taming of the Princeton Tigers...
After his father left his family--"without warning, for no apparent reason," according to Weisbroad--the Woodbury native decided he could not leave his mother, Patricia, alone in the East. Suddenly, Harvard was the obvious alternative. He already had two sisters in the Boston area--one at B.C., one at Springfield College. And the Crimson's hockey program was already a force in the ECAC...