Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people watching stock prices plunge last week, that sense of security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...
...falling, is at 2103. Long lines of people form to take turns in the N.Y.S.E.'s spectator gallery. Heather Walker, 27, wants to "tell my grandchildren I was there." But she wonders if the crash means she will never be a mother. "Even in good times, men are scared of getting married," says Walker. "In the coming depression, forget...
...come from a typical Italian family," says Teresa. "My mother wanted me to teach dancing. The first year I arm wrestled she wouldn't speak to me. Now she's proud of all my trophies...
Never recommend the Japanese basket trick when the future Queen Mother of Britain is within earshot...
...most eccentric performance is turned in by Anne Ramsey as Umstetter's mother. She's a parody of the faithful, loving Hollywood mother and she looks like the result of a genetic experiment in which Mama Leone's genes were spliced with a munchkin...