Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Barry moved to Pitsburgh, soccer teams for young girls were more difficult to find. Her mother started a league so she and her sister could continue their soccer careers, and from then her career soared...
CALL HER Betty the Loon, or call her a caring mother who just does not care about the right things in the right way. But whatever you call her, Beatrice, the main character of Paul Zindel's short play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, is a compelling figure whose life has gone awry...
...beaten his wife, Flighty But Passionate Beth (Heather Gunn), so mercilessly that he thinks he has killed her. Their respective families run to their aid. On Jake's side there's his Loyal But Timid brother Frankie (Daniel Hurewitz), his Embittered sister Sally (Diane Paulus), and his Oedipally Overnurturing Mother Lorraine (Susan Schwartz). Their counterparts in Beth's family are her Vengeful brother Mike (Sam Sifton), her Death-Obsessed Hunter father Baylor (Jon Tolins), and her Fearful And Self-Deluding mother Meg (Jenny Lyn Bader...
...Harvard days, I only drank coffee after Sunday brunch at my grandparents' house. My mother would pour me half a cup of coffee, half a cup of cream, and dump in five tablespoons of sugar...
...began to frequent Algiers. In my All-American mind, Algiers and coffee and smoke and foreign languages and the Middle East became all mixed up. Algiers was a world I had never known. I knew my mother would hate this smoke-filled cafe, with dim lighting. None of the people there looked like they had grown up in a fifties-style neighborhood, with a back yard and little leagues and barbeques. None of them had ever played badminton...