Word: mother
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...tend to be antisexist, pro-tolerance and pro- underdog, whether it's animals or humans. The same goes for female rockers. When Chicago hyperintellectual singer Liz Phair, 26, played her explicit debut album Exile from Guyville for her parents, she was surprised at the reaction. "The first time my mother heard it, she wept," says Phair. "Not because she was shocked, but because she was so moved at hearing something so revealing from her daughter...
...firebug, and Reitman tries to play it like Arson and Old Lace. (He punctuates this theme with a performance- art piece by Hannah so bizarre it could empty movie houses quicker than a bomb threat.) Which leaves the top two stars to their own considerable resources of charm and mother wit. Redford looks terrific, and has honed his stutter-step diction into a cagey character trait. Winger, unflatteringly photographed, is still the most ingratiating of Oscar-worthy actresses. Neither deserves to be laden with this leaden souffle. Verdict on Legal Eagles: guilty of genre sabotage. Cast dismissed...
...June 1 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when she accidentally crushed her firstborn to death...
...surgery. But both infants faced a long and uncertain road ahead. So far, the ; longest any infant has survived with a neonatal heart is seven months, and last week two babies who had received transplants in April at Loma Linda were back in the hospital for rejection problems. The mother of one of the infants had a word of warning to the other parents: ''It's easy to put a heart in. It's hard to keep it there...
...there will attest, that was often the only way to determine whether the wounded were alive, and by then it was too late to help. Like the war, Knox's account ends diffidently. Its last entry is a New Year's Eve letter from an Army captain to his mother, composed as he awaited another Chinese midnight attack near Seoul. ''We're kind of stuck out on a limb here,'' he writes. But without too much overt psychic dislocation, most of the men managed to climb down and take their place in society. In a war with no winners, that...