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 stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs. In a nutshell, we're ready for Yale...
...taking the Yuppification of Mother Jones in stride. But at the first sight of a four-color glossy cover on The Nation or a Chivas Regal advertisement in In These Times, someone kindly shoot...
...last casualty of the Reagan Revolution is, I fear, Mother Jones magazine, a long-time soap box for leftists and unabashed bleeding heart liberals. Named for Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, an early 20th century labor organizer and self-described hell-raiser, the magazine is perhaps best known to Harvard students as the source of the "combusting Pintos" article in the Ec 10 readings book...
During the last month of former President Ronald W. Reagan's term, Mother Jones introduced its sharp, glossy, "new look," complete with a photograph of actress Susan Sarandon on the cover. The new and improved magazine includes columns such as "OUT OF POCKET, about how to buy and invest with your ethics intact," and "TRIPS, a guide to travel and adventure for non-Ugly Americans...
Allen's method is different. In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke. It would spoil the fun to say how he transforms a stock figure, a yammering, smothering mom (Mae Questel, who is splendid), from a private torment into a public menace, but it is literally magical to behold...