Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual in these sad days, filthy lucre is the mother of innovation. The preponderance of American accents in Parliament is yet another cunning British scheme to milk its antiquity for all that it is worth. Not content with turning the entire country into its meager conception of a tourist's paradise, England has gone it one better and changed its government to suit the times. Penury again is the cause of change...
Americans, on the other hand, appear delighted to work for nothing. Secure in their anticipation of future employment, they hasten to fritter away their summers in such congenial and prestigious surroundings. Such indeed is their enthusiasm for the Mother of Parliaments that many are willing not only to work eight hours a day without the slightest monetary reward but also to pay for the privilege of doing so through various exorbitant programs...
...take my being here as a complete miracle," said Tenghiz Gudava through a translator. Gudava, a musician, arrived in Boston from the Soviet Union three weeks ago with his mother Raisa, his brother Edward, Edward's wife Marina and their son Zurab...
...that society forces on women. Indeed, that story can be found within A Southern Family, but so can many others. In her seventh novel, Gail Godwin again displays the narrative verve and generosity that won critical praise for her early works and then popular, best-selling acclaim for A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and The Finishing School (1985). Her meticulously controlled fiction creates the illusion of life unpredictably unfolding and of characters trying to make moral sense out of experiences that overwhelm thought...
Yuppie shows are easy to spot. CBS's Everything's Relative revolves around two brothers who share a New York apartment and a nagging mother. One (John Bolger) is a blue-collar swinger; the other (Jason Alexander), a buttoned-down yuppie who does consumer research for products like sushi-on-a-stick. In NBC's My Two Dads, two bachelors get joint custody of a twelve-year-old girl, whom one of them -- no one knows which -- has fathered. Again, they are a contrasting pair: Greg Evigan is a free-spirited artist, Paul Reiser a compulsive financial analyst who describes...