Word: mother
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...focus on these questions of right and wrong, the editors have decided to create a new section of the magazine called Ethics. The section is being launched this week with a story on the bitter custody battle between the surrogate mother of New Jersey's Baby M. and the biological father and his wife...
...mother, a maid, and his father, a gardener, had raised their family in San Jose, California. Though they had never visited the East Coast before June of 1968, their son's cabled orders kept them from relaxing enough to enjoy the trip...
...have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying to catch up. Later sequences offer conventional, tell-me-a-story pleasures: a mother with a toothache tries to dispel it through elaborate religious ritual; a drunken father comes home and dies in a poignant scene made all the more impressive by the fact that moments before, the actor had stepped out of character to label his role unplayable...
...typifies the way Brustein's troupe has alternately exhilarated, frustrated and befuddled -- but rarely bored -- its audiences while building a reputation as perhaps the nation's most prestigious regional theater. Although Brustein routinely disparages Broadway, some of his productions end up there, including the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, 'Night, Mother. The troupe received Broadway's highest accolade, a Tony Award, last June. A.R.T.'s luster has been augmented by its affiliations with universities -- Yale from 1966 to mid-1979 (another ensemble now performs as the Yale Repertory Theater) and since then Harvard. But its main claim to glory is the quality...
...neoexpressionism and media-based "appropriation" imagery were much copied by new Los Angeles collectors before his death in 1985. There are few collectors of note among MOCA's 39 trustees, and none have promised their holdings to the museum -- not even Marcia Weisman, despite her role as founding mother. But Koshalek is convinced that MOCA's collections will fill out, and that his target of funding acquisitions with $10 million a year in gifts and raised money will be met. "Doing the Temporary Contemporary and Bunker Hill in four years left nothing over," he says. "But now that the museum...