Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stanima of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs."-Harvard squash player George Polsky after the Crimson defeated Dartmouth...
...myself as a champion of women's causes," Zeckhauser said, but she senses "a very special perspective" gained from her experiences as a working mother...
...orphan, Frances was adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that...
...vacationing family meets a boy in the Blue Ridge Mountains willing to take a group snapshot. He turns out to be a deaf-mute astrological visionary. High up in the Smokies, the menopausal mother of the family keeps hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses...
...rake, Susan develops hallucinations of grandeur. In her imaginary world, her garden is five times bigger and her driveway is ten miles long. Her fantasy husband, Andy, does the cooking, and, "incidentally, loves (her) more than words can say." Her vacuous daughter is talented and beautiful, and appreciates her mother (now a noted author) as Rick never did. Her brother is affable and protective, generously offering his services to dispose of the unappreciative Gerald...