Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name of this friend has been changed to keep shame from his mother...
...house with her separated daughter and her five-year-old grandson. Her opening lines, directed to the audience, are pleasantly sardonic: "Let me tell you how much I love being called Grandma . . ." But this grandma turns quickly into a cloying paragon of hip, enlightened '80s attitudes. When her mother (Elaine Stritch) sneaks into the closet for a smoke, Ellen admonishes, "You've read the Surgeon % General's report." When the family dog is about to have puppies, Ellen argues that her young grandson ought to be allowed to watch the event. And when one of her students wavers in motivation...
...year in jail starting in 1965 for attempted burglary and three years, beginning in 1969, for a hijacking from an airport warehouse. He was not around much for the early years of his five children by his wife Victoria, the daughter of an Italian builder and a Russian-Jewish mother...
...Club, Connie, a school crossing guard, has been escorting children across the same street for ten years. "People here look up to him," she says of Gotti. "As soon as you mention his name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking up her small daughter, says of Gotti, "I think he's good for 101st Avenue. There's no riffraff around here. If it weren't for him, this neighborhood would be carried away by the drug addicts." Every year on the Fourth...
That said, the 58-year-old widow -- mother of four, grandmother of nine, devout Catholic, independent businesswoman -- smiled broadly, her eyes fairly twinkled, and she added, "Besides, if they took me to the nuthouse now they'd have to take thousands with...