Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess, there is a great deal of unnecessary filler used to pad the otherwise flat main idea. For example, too much of the plot revolves around Leslie's attempt at cooking dinner for the IRS agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...
...Andre has never changed, you see," his mother says. "He is still simply a boy of Alsace...
Once, she and Johnny Campo Jr. were the only juveniles tolerated on the grounds at Belmont, where in the late '60s her mother was the sole female groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...
...vacations during August, Soltner may do cooking demonstrations on a cruise ship, taking his wife and mother along, or they visit Alsace and Simone's native Normandy. There she catches up on what she calls "real" apple cider and dishes her sister-in-law prepares with rabbit and lamb. Do the Soltners ever argue about the relative superiority of their regional kitchens? "That was settled long ago. We decided that the best food is Alsatian," says the husband. Soltner is "bien attache," say relatives, well attached to family, food, and language. "He has never lost this sense of his roots...
During Aquino's 28-year marriage to one of the Philippines' ablest political figures, she seemed quite content to be a housewife and mother, and she was a genuinely reluctant presidential candidate. But she managed to channel widespread dissatisfaction with Marcos into a steamroller campaign that in the end swept him from power. U.S. pressure on Marcos surely helped, as did the last-minute defections of Enrile and Ramos. But at the center of it all was Aquino: petite, polite, increasingly self-assured, a woman who spoke for a country, molding an inchoate popular movement into a winning political force...