Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deaver's daughter, Amanda, 17, sobbed as she left the courtroom with her mother. His wife, Carolyn, appeared drawn...
Cleary practices psychology the Freudian way. He sends his players back to mother...
...step off the train in New Jersey where my mother is waiting on the platform. She says, "Honey, you're leaning a little to the right--and why are you holding your arm up like that...
...particularly striking scene depicts the woman's childhood memory of roaming through a lumberyard with her mother in hopes of finding her father's name carved on one of the logs sent there from a labor camp; their search is in vain, but another woman does spot her husband's initials and caresses them tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies...
Parker soon concluded, "There were a lot of experts, but no one was writing for the consumer." In 1977 he borrowed $2,000 from his mother and the following year published the first issue of The Wine Advocate, which was mailed speculatively to 6,000 wine lovers in the Baltimore-Washington area. About 600 readers wrote in to subscribe -- enough to finance a second issue. By 1984 The Wine Advocate had so outclassed its rivals that Parker quit his job as a lawyer to become a full-time wine critic...