Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remind him that in the course of winning 20 major championships, he hit a few fairways previously. Nicklaus thinks he has found magic again. The last time was two years ago this week at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., where anyone with a wet eye could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor," he said...
...safe token, a man who had held all the right offices, adopted all the sensible positions, and differed from the majority's norms only by the accident of his race. But this contender challenges all the established verities at once. For Jackson, the illegitimate son of a teenage mother, is a fiery preacher who rose to national prominence through controversy and tumult, and he now heads a left-wing populist movement that confronts the centrist assumptions of political life...
...pursuit of drugs. But his story is an attenuated one, and when it is told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot restore Jamie to our good graces. The fact that James Bridges is a hopelessly unimaginative director finishes Jamie off. In the wake...
Wilson is not a "black" playwright in the sense the term was applied in the confrontational 1960s and '70s. He movingly evokes the evolving psychic burden of slavery but without laying on guilt or political harangues. The son of a largely absent white father and a devoted, enterprising black mother whom he revered, Wilson keeps his white characters at the periphery, yet emphasizes the humanity that binds Americans together. Although his vision is steeped in sadness, it is equally rich in humor and wonder at the everyday joys of living, from the umpteenth retelling of a beloved family anecdote...
Among some Jackson advisers, the savvy Lewis, 50, is known as the "mother of us all." A former political director of the Democratic National Committee, a thoughtful, deep-dyed liberal and feminist, Lewis rarely accompanies Jackson but acts as a kind of backboard off which he bounces ideas. She functions as a conduit to party Pooh-Bahs and the media...