Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakdown, decides to jog instead of swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion of rich colors but daydreams about the frail hands of her dying mother: "I traced with my finger the huge, adult bones, the fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention exactly to the ridgings of her knuckles, the wedding ring, her pale, flat nails." Not a false note sounds in these recordings of sorrow and sudden grace. Deborah Eisenberg...
...forestall any further squirming, the man on the aisle should know that the young woman next to him is Susanna Hoffs from Los Angeles. Her father and mother met at Yale, where he was a med student and she was studying art. Now her father is a psychoanalyst, her mother a film director, and their daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince...
...properly luminous finale for a man whose energy could light a city block. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Cagney was the son of a hard- drinking bartender who was frequently absent from home. He was raised mostly by a strong mother who could cheer him on in a barefisted street brawl but stood resolutely in his way when he toyed with the idea of a professional fight career. She made no objections, however, when Cagney fast-talked his way into a $35-a-week vaudeville dancing job when...
...performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages of exposition, mined from the same instinct that made Cagney what he would never admit he was: a consummate actor...
...year-old refugee from El Salvador, fled his country's violence last year after his older brother was killed by a rebel group. After a series of stops along the escape route from his country--including an arrest by immigration authorities in Texas--Juan arrived in Cambridge with his mother and sister...