Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barry Brown, who worked on editing Lee's films for the past four years. Lee's cinematic preferences run the gamut, from Hector Babenco's Pixote and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets to musicals such as The Wizard of Oz and West Side Story, a taste inherited from his mother. Lee, who has been called a "black Woody Allen," says he admires Scorsese's work. But suggest that he has been cinematically influenced by others and he jumps. "I don't try to emulate anyone -- especially Woody Allen...
...Brooklyn, he wasn't particularly interested in movies; he loved sports. But Lee's parents were creative people who exposed their children to the arts, instilling in them a deep appreciation of culture. His father Bill Lee, a bass violinist who played with Odetta, scores all his films. His mother, who nicknamed Shelton Jackson Lee "Spike," taught black literature until her death in 1977. Reared in a home where there was a long tradition of education, Lee credits his family with being the major influence in his life...
After the tragedy, her son Stephen Nodvin, a research ecologist in Knoxville, wrote a moving three-page plea to his Congressman. He conceded that his mother might have found another way to end her life, but said her depression would probably have been cured had a gun not been so easily available. He protested the casual way in which she was able to acquire the fatal weapon: "No waiting period was enforced, no mental or criminal checks were made, and the salesperson even loaded the bullets into the gun. Mom died that day because of the totally irresponsible attitude that...
...given up on department stores. Says Tess Goodier, 36, of Vienna, Va., mother of two young children: "It's so much easier than going over to J.C. Penney and chasing after my wandering kids." While the new catalog kings have much in common, each is trying to carve out its own identity...
...battle in which compromise was impossible. A generation of social-issue conservatives was politicized and mobilized. As a result, today's Republican Party officially endorses a human-life amendment that would not merely return the abortion issue to the states but would constitutionally ban abortion except to save the mother's life...