Word: mother
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Ballard, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, joined Navigator Martin Bowen and Pilot Ralph Hollis in the research submersible Alvin as it began a 2 1/2-hour descent from the mother ship Atlantis II to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic. It was the first of twelve dives planned for the current mission, designed to survey the Titanic while testing new imaging equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name...
...country's independence in 1947, socialism has been an accepted part of India's political and economic system. Now the subcontinent has begun to embrace free enterprise too. The change is largely the work of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who took office in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi. Rajiv has presided over a liberalization program that has slashed taxes and produced more than 80 decrees loosening or abolishing business restrictions. Despite foot-dragging by India's entrenched army of bureaucrats, overjoyed managers have responded by rushing to securities markets to raise cash for investments...
...however, were as traditional as the bridegroom was atypical. So starved was the press for news that reporters zeroed in on arriving Cousin and Bridesmaid Sydney Lawford McKelvy in the Barnstable airport ladies' room and besieged her with questions as she changed her son's diaper. The mother of the bride was characteristically silent, but she did wave cheerily to onlookers when she arrived from her estate on Martha's Vineyard...
Enough carping. In an age that rewards strength over grace, let there be women as strong as Weaver's Ripley. May homeless children have no less ferocious an adoptive mother; may extraterrestrial predators meet no less resourceful an antagonist. Trust that a million moviegoers will find the glamour beneath the smudged sweat on Ripley's face, and the feral humor in her challenge to Big Mama Alien: "Get away from her, you bitch...
...rats (The Nutcracker Suite), mice (Walt Disney's Cinderella), whales (John Huston's Moby Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek...