Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guys have heard of Reverend Moon, haven't you?"--and the Moonie monologue began. Two hours later, after an intensive course in geopolitical religious propaganda, Dave, Nate, Kevin and I were safely back in Mother Harvard's peaceful atmosphere of suspended legality and religious isolation...
...time to go home, we'd go to the bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another few weeks." Burnett's parents were both alcoholics. Their half resentful, half forgiving daughter recalls them in memorable images: her mother passed out with their pet parakeet Tweetie passed out on top of her. ( Such scenes show that to a comic mind even the darkest of childhood memories can be assuaged with laughter...
...happy endings seem promised here, but a final chapter and postscript provide several, including the awarding last year of Japan's most prestigious literary prize to Foumi for a book about the experiences of a mother with a handicapped child. And Noah has found a place, not only in real life but in the minds of those who, thanks to his parents, have come to know...
...keyed into the cliches ordinary people use, both to express and to hide from their feelings, that he presses all irony out of the dialogue. This does pay off in two climactic hospital scenes where the raw exposition is nicely translated into emotion: Patti whispers anesthetic incantations into her mother's ear, then offers revelation and forgiveness as a kind of requiem prayer. Mostly, though, the plot motors along with the same predictable churn as the new Bruce Springsteen song that gives the movie its title...
Mini Maid Services. In 1973 Homemaker Leone Ackerly, mother of three, wanted to buy a new auto. To earn the money, she hired herself out as a cleaning lady. She has since, as they say, cleaned up. Now 41, Ackerly drives a Jaguar XJ6 and oversees a maid-service empire, based in Marietta, Ga., with 900 employees at 96 franchises in 24 states. Annual revenues: more than $9 million. Mini Maid is about to launch franchises in Germany, Italy and Australia. The secret of Ackerly's success? Says she: "We do one thing one way for one price...