Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JEREMY'S problems are not limited to self-centeredness and disfluencies in his speech. He is also cursed with bad--nearly disfiguring--acne. His father is depressed and unstable; his sister is brilliant and outshines him; his mother is strong-willed and oppresses him along with the rest of her relatives...
...guess the idea was that Mother was impressing him with how serious she was and Barry was impressing her with how serious he was and Father and I were impressing them with how we were just a couple of charter members of the hoi polloi who liked to eat food...
...many ways, this novel is more a chronicle of the family than of Jeremy's childhood. But all the characters are flat and do nothing for the work's landscape. Jeremy's mother is unbelievably callous. She is a well-known, talented journalist who carries her notebook with her everywhere and sees a feature article in every crisis in her son's life...
...down. Even in the final season, when the Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers % of her daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz Jr., both of whom got started...
Michael's mother, Candance Thorp, admits she drank up to half of a fifth of Jim Beam bourbon every day while she was pregnant. But in a trial that began last week in Seattle, she blames the Chicago distiller for her child's injuries because the bottles did not carry labels warning that alcohol could harm unborn children. The distiller claims that doctors had urged Thorp to stop drinking while pregnant...