Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in Pittsburgh in 1927, the only child of a steel company purchasing agent and a schoolteacher mother, Bork originally intended to follow in Ernest Hemingway's footsteps by working for newspapers and then writing fiction. A poet-professor at the University of Chicago steered him to the law. At Chicago's law school, free-market economists like Aaron Director inspired his transition from liberal to conservative...
...Oral began to hedge. During a TV appearance with a physician from his university's medical school, Roberts explained that a baby he had raised "years ago" appeared to have died during a service. "Only a doctor could say" whether the infant was "clinically dead," he said, but "the mother thought it was dead, I thought it was dead, the crowd thought it was dead...
...more than a year, Tess Follensbee had found it easier to start moving her rigid muscles if she walked backward, so pronounced was her Parkinson's disease. In May, all that changed. The 39-year-old mother of four was one of the first half a dozen Americans to undergo experimental brain surgery for Parkinson's at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Last week some 500 medical researchers, gathered at a symposium sponsored by the University of Rochester in New York, watched a videotape of Follensbee in awed silence as she triumphantly, if tentatively, propelled herself forward. Says...
Whitney's most meaningful cut has to be I Know Him So Well, a power-pop ballad from the Broadway-bound musical Chess, which she sings with her mother Cissy. In the song, a grandmaster's wife and mistress muse about being unable to fulfill his needs for fantasy and security; in this version, mother and daughter sing about a husband-father, and it makes for an electrifying duet. Throughout the album, the range and vocal glamour displayed offer testimony that Cissy's girl has grown up. Whitney marks graduation day for the prom queen of soul...
...face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life...