Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went to see a movie with the family. In talking to her son Alex von Auersperg after the movie, her voice faltered, and when she stood up to go to bed, she staggered. She told her son she hadn't been taking any drugs, and he carried his mother to bed. The next morning, von Bulow called him up to Sunny's bedroom, where Alex found his mother crumpled on the bathroom floor. Sunny was rushed to the hospital where she had a heart attack, and has been in a coma ever since...
...know what people say. This mushy-headed liberal Cuomo, who read a book once. These macho guys who want to burn people, fry them." He drops his voice. "I know how you feel." He does. Cuomo's father-in-law was paralyzed by a mugger's attack. "Look, my mother wants revenge." Cuomo does not. He tells them that he is for life without parole. "I'd say, 'That's it, Charlie, you're going to be by yourself for 100 years.' " The policemen applaud...
Later, at his office, Cuomo dials a familiar number. After several rings, a low voice answers. "Mamma," Cuomo says, "I've been talking about you." He begins to tell her about the speech, but his mother interrupts, talking furiously in Italian. Cuomo translates for a reporter. Three women had been murdered the day before in Brooklyn. Animals, she calls the killers; they deserve to die. The Governor manages to calm her, then says an affectionate goodbye in Italian...
During his senior year in college, Cuomo shyly introduced himself to a popular, curly-haired girl named Matilda Raffa. She remembers him as serious and religious, the kind of boy, her mother told her, who would never hurt her. Andrew Cuomo recalls how when he first started dating, his father told him not to forget that the girl he was taking out that night was somebody's sister. When Cuomo proposed to Matilda, he was in his first year of law school; she remembers that he gave her a lecture on the Catholic Church's teaching about birth control...
...watches over her children, occasionally flying to Rome, where Moussa is co-producing a 90-min. made-for- TV movie directed by Federico Fellini. The star of The Hotel New Hampshire and Tess, explains Moussa, "wants to forget she ever was Nastassja Kinski. She wants to enjoy being a mother, like many other women who have not been film stars...