Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room went gray; I blinked, and it was black. The notes gathered and transformed into the familiar overture. The curtain hung heavy. And then, just as the little girl behind me asked her mother, "Mommy, is it starting yet?" the curtain lifted. Large flakes of snow sunk to the stage where a chestnut seller, the epitome of a Victorian Christmas, was hawking his wares. Families and children paraded across the stage into the wings. The lights did not twinkle gold against soft blue-gray; the stage was just a stage, and all the dancers were players on it. The tree...
Intermission came and with it, the lights. But the magic lingered. On the other side of the theater, a little girl pranced around under the area created by an arch. She twirled three times, calling to her mother, "Watch me, watch me." Her blond hair flopped as she bounced up in a mock pirouette. She spun again, playing to her now growing audience. She couldn't have been more than four, but she had fallen under the spell...
...long profile of Hart she wrote this summer in Vanity Fair. Sheehy went on and on with cheap pop psychological insights into Hart's upbringing while trying to answer the question "Why would Gary Hart want to sleep with a woman like Donna Rice?" She cited his stern mother and their even sterner Church as the source of his incessant womanizing...
...attractive woman like Ms. Rice. You don't have to have grown up in a repressive environment to want to do that. What is repulsive about Hart is that as a presidential front-runner he was hanging around with a crowd no decent man should be part of, crazy mother...
Hart's problems run far deeper than a simple desire to let loose of the bonds of mother and childhood. Anyone who has seen the infamous National Enquirer photos of Rice sitting on Hart's lap and a clearly blasted Hart playing the congas in a nightclub cannot have come away thinking they were looking at a happy or stable...