Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberal faculty members have a similar gripe with McLaughlin. "[McLaughlin] has to make it clear what is and isn't tolerable activity. You don't go around kicking chairs from under people. Everybody's mother told them that," says Thomas Roos, one of McLaughlin's most severe faculty critics and a supporter...
...fellow crew members to sign. He planned to present it during commencement exercises next June at his old school, now called Carteret High, where he was to be the featured speaker. Said Senator Jake Garn, who trained with Smith for a 1985 shuttle mission: "He was my mother hen. They assigned him to me." One thing the two never discussed, says Garn, was the possibility of a disaster: "We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else...
...Lord has certainly been smiling on Whitney Houston. The daughter of Gospel Legend Cissy, Whitney, 22, began as a model six years ago, and her face had already graced the pages of Seventeen, Glamour and Vogue when she decided last year to follow in her mother's vocal tracks. The result has been nothing less than glorious. Her strong and silky voice has made her first album, Whitney Houston, a best seller for 46 weeks. Last week at the American Music Awards, Houston won for best rhythm-and-blues single (You Give Good Love) and best R.-and-B. video...
...embodiment of woman subjugated to the power of men? In truth, Atwood's vision is considerably more complex than that. For the Republic of Gilead has come about, in part, with the help of women. Offred's memories of childhood include the time that her mother, an ardent feminist, took her to a ceremonial burning of pornographic magazines...
Later, at the indoctrination center, Offred sees her mother again, this time in a newsreel approvingly shown by the authorities: "She's in a group of other women, dressed in the same fashion; she's holding a stick, no, it's part of a banner, the handle. The camera pans up and we see the writing, in paint, on what must have been a bed sheet: TAKE BACK THE NIGHT." Now there are no sleazy districts in Gilead. A woman can walk in public without being whistled at or worse. Offred wonders what her mother, if still alive, thinks about...