Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Lady was taken aback by her Soviet counterpart's relentless questioning about historical and cultural minutiae during a tour of the White House. "I'm afraid I'm not much help," admitted Nancy, who was recovering from breast-cancer surgery and mourning the recent death of her mother. "Their face-off was extraordinary," said one who saw the pair in action. "They didn't seem to understand each other." As a result, Nancy decided to tour Leningrad this week only if Raisa did not come along. Instead, Mrs. Reagan's official escort will be Soviet President Andrei Gromyko...
From mining country, Clemens writes his mother that the land is "fabulously rich in gold, silver, copper . . . thieves, murderers, desperadoes, ladies, children, lawyers, Christians, Indians, Chinamen . . . poets, preachers, and jackass rabbits." A sister receives more intimate intelligence: "I don't mind sleeping with female servants as long as I am a bachelor -- by no means -- but after I marry, that sort of thing will be 'played out,' you know...
...Childs' mother was, and remains, a staunch member of Assemblies of God, and her maternal grandparents were both Assemblies missionaries. Childs and her three brothers "weren't allowed to listen to pop music or rock or even go to the movies. There was a lot I missed out on." There was a lot she made up for too, as well as a lot she probably could have done without. Her mother and father moved the family every year or so, from little towns in California's San Joaquin Valley to places in Arkansas and Oklahoma no bigger than a post...
...precocious and pretty 17-year-old when he arrived on the New York literary scene in the early '40s. (He came by way of Greenwich, Conn.; his mother had married a prosperous New York businessman named Joe Capote, who turned out to be a kindly stepfather.) Capote wangled a job at The New Yorker, and at night wrote and overwrote fevered, delicate, swamp-baroque stories that were skewed images of Monroeville. On the strength of one story in Mademoiselle, Random House signed the new phenom to a book contract...
Citing national security, Aquino has refused to allow the man she replaced more than two years ago to re-enter the country for his mother's funeral. The President has permitted Marcos' three children to return, however. Last week, when some 7,000 Marcos supporters began hurling rocks and bottles near the U.S. embassy, police used truncheons and tear gas to disperse them. Marcos' sister, Fortuna Barba, remains hopeful. "((Aquino)) might still change her mind," she said. "The angel of the Lord touches her heart...