Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some blame women for getting raped. Topor recalls that "the middle-aged mother of one of my friends saw the movie and said to me, 'Obviously she deserved it.' " Says Gail Abarbanel of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica Hospital in California: "I haven't seen a single rape case with multiple assailants in which anyone has tried to stop it. And research indicates that the more people around, the less anyone takes responsibility...
Second, raise my mother's taxes. My dad paid into Social Security for decades while he was alive, but nowhere near enough, even assuming it had been invested wisely, to throw off the kind of Social Security benefits my mother will receive over her lifetime. (We forget that as recently as 1977 the maximum contribution was only about $1,000 a year. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, it ranged from $45 to $374.) If Social Security were all she had to live on, it would be unthinkable to ask her to take less. But because she has income above...
...putting Gabel's daughter Sukhreet on the public payroll in order to get Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments. Many New Yorkers seem less offended by Myerson's alleged misdeeds than by the behavior of Sukhreet, 39, who cheerfully testified for eight days against her 75-year-old mother. "This is what she wanted her whole life, to be an actress. She doesn't care who she's hurting," says Warren Shalit, 58, a retired warehouse manager and connoisseur of trials...
...love and drug culture against the conventions of small-town America, the obligatory collegiate life of demonstration against the rigid demands of a fearful but patriotic older generation. Within the families, though, Scott must deal with a stern, unfeeling father (Bruce Dern) and a disenchanted, prayerful mother (Mariette Hartley), while Ralph must deal with his own widowed mother (Joanna Cassidy...
They are blamed for the failures of American schools, accused of incompetence and expected to fill in for negligent parents, and they work under conditions few professionals would tolerate. "We are the mother, the teacher, the nurse, the doctor," says one classroom veteran. Still, many say the modern schoolhouse is a place not only of fears and frustrations but also of startling epiphanies and sublime rewards...