Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turner once winked at Mother Theresa...
...Saturday night at Herrell's, and I'm working my weekly 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Money is not what brought me here--at under $4 an hour Herrell's is no economic match for Mother Harvard's extravagant wages. Herrell's is purely an escape, a chance to be completely weird for six hours, and getting paid is just an excuse to indulge in the surreal pleasures of the ice cream world...
WILLS DEFINES Reagan's appeal the same way Roland Barthes defined myth: "He is a durable daylight `bundle of meanings,"' Wills writes. "Reagan does not argue for American values; he embodies them." Gifted with his salesman father's Irish blarney and his sermonizing mother's penchant for moral crusading, Reagan articulates and seems to embody values Americans prize most. He can josh with an audience and then preach to them. Self-deprecating, humble, unpretentious, charming and--most importantly--a financial and social success, Reagan stands as the "fulfillment of America's ideal--Everyman suddenly put in charge of the nation...
...Apache war dance, spinning and turning in small, violent circles. Twenty feet in front of Vicki, high on the concrete platform, Bridey, Veva and Dianne are shrieking with excitement. As the train comes into view, they begin to spin and dance as if possessed. Bridey calls out to her mother as the train pulls onto the trestle, "Stop! Stop! You'll make it rain! You'll make it rain...
...front row. Now and then, Jimmie Walker -- you know, J.J. on Good Times? -- plays with our band." But, generally, Banks has kept his hometown in perspective. "It's a good place to lose money, and it never snows." Banks' father is a bellman at the Hacienda, his mother a housekeeper at the Union Plaza. "Everyone's dream here is the N.B.A.," he says, but a few have ended up at the M.G.M. Banks says, "It's my dream too," though he is preparing to fall back on the city's second leading industry, social work...