Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tawanah Jean Griggs, 17, was lying on the sofa in her mother's living room in Bartlesville, Okla., last May 1 when her cousin Neil Ennis walked in, carrying a 12-gauge pump shotgun. Ennis leveled the weapon at the girl. "Shall we put her out of her misery?" he asked a mutual friend standing there. The gun went , off, killing Griggs. Her photograph was featured on the cover of TIME's July 17 investigation into the deaths of the 464 people killed by guns in the U.S. during the week...
Just as the Harvard golf team was prepared to surge toward the top of the 25-team Toski Invitational field, Mother Nature intervened and assured that it would fare no better than 11th. The final round of the tournament, held at the Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst, was canceled because of heavy rains yesterday. This left the Crimson with a team total of 246 strokes, 36 behind victorious Central Connecticut, which posted...
...Enough!" shouts the mother of the groom. "This is their wedding day. I don't want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter...
...Country, an adaptation of the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason, is a direct, even artless, projection of this healing spirit. There is nothing metaphoric about the empty space left in her life by the war; her father was killed in Viet Nam before she could know him. Her mother having remarried and moved away, Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after her high school graduation, she comes upon...
Last week in Maryville, Tennessee Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young announced his decision in the unprecedented case: the embryos are people, not property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life begins at conception." The lawsuit ought to be decided as a question of custody, he concluded, and "it is to the manifest best interests of the child or children, in vitro that they be available for implantation." Questions of final custody, child support and visitation rights will be decided later...