Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some big state university systems, grades were down: tougher standards cut the number of A's more than 4% at Cal State and 3% at Penn State. Old-time values were up: University of Wisconsin-Madison students voted Mom and Dad their No. 1 heroine and hero (runners-up: Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ). Law school and medical school enrollments were down after a boom of nearly two decades...
...stage. If you don't get married early and it looks as if you are going to be an old maid, well then, we will think about college because then at least you can be a schoolteacher, which is a very respectable profession for any woman.' My mother would say to my father, 'The girl wants to be an opera star.' And my father would say, 'The two boys will go to college and be smart; this one will get married.' And my mother would say, 'No, the two boys will go to college and be smart; this...
...picture is a shot in the arm to almost everyone in it, certainly including Julia Nickson, 26, the Vietnamese agent who falls in love with Sylvester Stallone. She was a $50-an-hour model in Hawaii when Stallone cast her. Born in Singapore to an English father and Chinese mother, Nickson had done a little acting: two small parts with Tom Selleck on the TV series Magnum P.I. She declines to compare Pecthrobs Selleck and Stallone. She got no screen kisses from Magnum, and as for Rambo, "He used to grease up, so it was hard to get ahold...
Where does the world's most famous teenager go to celebrate the end of her teens? Gosh, gee, well, why not a male strip joint? Accompanied by her mother and a retinue of 17 femme friends (some from Princeton), Brooke Shields oh-oh- ogled the boys at Chippendales in Manhattan as one G-string-clad male after another gyrated in her direction. "She was giggling," reported a guest to the New York Post. "Sometimes she looked scared. She was very natural, very receptive, very nice to them." And, despite the salacious surroundings, very ladylike. When one hunk hoisted Shields into...
...east of Sao Paulo. While swimming in the sea, the depositions assert, Mengele, who by then was 67, drowned after suffering a stroke. The Bosserts said that they decided to bury him at the Embu cemetery in a family plot owned by the real Gerhard, who had buried his mother there in 1961. That same year, Wolfram Bossert told the police, "Rolf Mengele came to talk to me, and I handed over (his father's) diaries, documents and personal belongings...