Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when they inquired about the women's water polo program, one of the first persons they met was Leean O'Connell, who, like a mother hen, took the two players under her wing and helped them get used to the sport...
...sometimes called the "great equalizer," and the rain came pouring down yesterday. There is a limit, however, to how much an effect Mother Nature can have...
...become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
...graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Yet if he is a doctrinaire Freudian, he does not show it. The great man, in Gay's eyes, was the product of a culture and period as well as of his upbringing. Yes, he had a beautiful, strong-minded mother whom he once saw naked, or, as he put it, matrem nudam. But he was also a Jew in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at a time of ferment in the arts and sciences. Gay's Freud emerges slowly but heroically from this background as an ambitious outsider driven by what...
...meat of the play, of course, is Woody's one-liners, Choice morsels include, "I used to get migraines, but my analyst cured me. Now I get tremendous coldsores," "I'd sell my mother to the Arabs for that girl," and "My parents never got divorced, though I begged them to." There simply isn't a joke-free minute in the whole script...