Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spoken like a regular Thornton Wilder. But then part of Byrne's deft comic talent has always been that he is a quick study. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, Byrne moved with his mother Emma and electrical engineer father Tom first to Hamilton, Ont. (where Sister Celia was born), and then to Baltimore. Young David arrived there at age seven with an already burgeoning interest in music. (His folks say he played his phonograph almost perpetually from age three and took up the harmonica at five...
...hospital of a fashionable abortionist, a painfully trendy suburban restaurant. Among the suspects: the dead politician's vapid second wife, pregnant with his child even though she has had a lover for years; her con-man brother, who has moved into the politician's room; the victim's conniving mother, who mourns the loss of prewar manners more than the loss of her son. The politician himself is a mystery. Why, Dalgliesh wonders, did he suddenly resign his government post, experience a religious conversion during which, it is suggested, stigmata appeared on his body, and come to be killed...
...look at it with mixed emotions," Lou Goldstein was saying. His lean, humorous face was at half-mast. "It's like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff -- in your new Cadillac...
...Cornell 31-17 Penn 20-10 Holy Cross 41-0 Colgate 28-27 4-1 21-7 .750 TOM WINSLOW Preppy Managing Editor Matriculated at Princeton, Then Chose Harvard Harvard 27-14 Cornell 35-3 Penn 42-0 Holy Cross 17-10 Colgate 3-0 CRISTINA COLETTA Arts Editor Mother Really Wanted Her to Go to Princeton Harvard 24-20 Cornell 21-17 Penn 28-20 Holy Cross 25-2 Colgate...
...Sabrina Peck '84, combining disparate talents is not unusual. Her mother is a sculptor, a dance teacher, and a writer; her father is a doctor and a lawyer...