Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father was sent to jail for two years, after being denounced as an "imperialist" for actions he allegedly committed during the revolution. He had been a member of the party and a Communist activist, but was fed rice and water for two years in a jail cell. Paul's mother, a schoolteacher, also ran afoul of the authorities--she was denounced by her own students after mistakenly sitting on a newspaper which contained Chairman Mao's picture. She was sent to the country...
...Hallanan, who would like to start her own magazine someday, the stories she heard will serve as guidance about what to do -- and what not to do. But then Hallanan also has a role model closer to home: her mother has owned a real estate firm since 1984. "Many of those I spoke with saw starting a business as an outgrowth of the balancing act that so many of them perform at home, from budgeting the grocery list to planning family vacations," she says. "Being an entrepreneur and a woman can be a 36-hour...
...sergeant's pay -- $10,000 above a patrolman's maximum. If he misses again, the next round will probably not come up for four to six years (or whenever there are enough vacancies to justify an exam). "When you take the test," says Corr, "everybody knows -- your mother-in-law, the neighbors. If you fail, everybody knows that too. It's some humiliation...
Nobody speaks it with huge conviction, but the most promising theory in behalf of Spinks holds that the real world has recently descended on Tyson in the forms of a famous wife, a flamboyant mother-in-law, a $4.5 million mansion in Bernardsville, N.J., a parade of luxury cars (including a dinged one worth $180,000 that he tried to give away to the investigating officers) and a custody battle that pits the well-cologned manager Bill Cayton against the understated promoter Don King. Last August, once Tyson had all the belts, King threw a coronation for history's youngest...
...these is Donaldson's prose style. Before his death in 1982 Cheever had regaled many interviewers and companions with tales of his past. The litany took on anecdotal grandeur: his glamorous New England ancestors, his childhood in Quincy, Mass., as the second son of a failed father and domineering mother, his expulsion from Thayer Academy, his struggles to make his name as a writer during the 1930s, and his growing < recognition as a regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker; then marriage and three children -- Susan, Ben, Federico -- and the move to the exurbs north of New York...