Word: mother
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McCain had been trotting out a black wristband from the mother of a Corporal Matthew Stanley for cheap sympathy points since August of last year. I should have seen it coming: At just the right moment and in a lowered voice, he intoned, “She said, ‘Senator McCain, I want you to do everything—promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain...
...would. But then Obama, in a tone of exasperation, delivered his single zinger of the evening: “Let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too.” And then he stumbled. “From, Sergeant, uh, from the mother of, uh, Sergeant, Ryan David Jopek...
...focus on Olive that, the collection begins to feel like a novel. We follow her through a journey of realization that is interjected with characters and stories somewhat related to her own. Olive is often described as unlikable: she is a school teacher who scares her students and a mother who alienates her son. But she is also a character who, despite her faults, has an obvious inner goodness that makes her bearable. She is able to empathize with a wide range of people due to a “sense of just how desperately hard every person...
...which they tackle such pressing contemporary issues as teen pregnancy and—more importantly—what the heck to do with your precious little one when all you want to do is go out and rage. In a one-minute promo for the show, an underage puppet mother brings her year-old baby out to a club for a night of good old-fashioned fun. The episode shows that young mothers don’t have to miss out on the glories of youth while bonding with their children. After all, mother and child gain entrance because their...
...Robinson, investigates the much-examined Warhol clique from a personal, fresh perspective, exploring the inner machinations of the Factory. Weaving intimate interviews of aging Factory members with excerpts from Williams’ striking films, Robinson tells the story of a creative young man denied the approval of his dominating mother due to his homosexuality and betrayed by Warhol’s Machiavellian manipulation of the boy’s talent and love. Instead of expanding the idea of Andy Warhol as an icon, Robinson delves into the personal, human interactions that the Factory ultimately thrived on but which were often...