Word: mother
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...from his Irish background - can make even the most banal comment sound like a punch line. Audiences first fell for McDonagh's gritty, witty brand of theater in 1996, when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then, he has been selling out theaters from Broadway to the West End with seven plays, all written in a 10-month spurt during a bout of unemployment...
...consider a person born in Germany to be "The American Pope." America is a democracy in which we elect our leaders. Catholics do not elect the priests who will become bishops or bishops who become Cardinals or Cardinals who become Popes. Even if I live as long as my mother, who was over 100 years old when she died, I doubt the Catholic Church, in spite of the priest shortage, will ever have women as priests or as Pope. Nancy Cox, MAPLETON DEPOT...
...really intimidates you? -Shaun Brauteseth, Port Elizabeth, South AfricaMy mother when she is angry, because she is the biggest influence in my life and her opinion matters so much to me. She didn't raise me to be intimidated much, though I feel very intimidated if I have to go down a red carpet or stand next to celebrities or be in that sort of environment. The whole idea of being in a place where I'm kind of the square peg for a round hole makes me very nervous...
...downscale voters as the candidate of élites, if not élitist himself. Five days after his comments first surfaced on the internet, a Google search of Snobama was bringing up nearly 4,000 hits--which is ironic, considering that he is the only candidate in the race whose mother once collected food stamps. That's why he has rolled out the endorsements of Bruce Springsteen and the American Hunters and Shooters Association and put more emphasis on what he shares with working-class voters. He talked about the struggles of his single mom, and the fact that...
...talk me out of selling it. "When are you doing this?" she asked. "I have a lot of gold I'd love to get rid of. I wear more costumey, fun stuff. I think it's younger-looking." I do not have a particularly sentimental mother...