Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even "mother of the fatherland...
...over the place." Philip Youtie, vice president of the Bridal Marketers Association of America and owner of a large bridal chain with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils...
Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...
...Lori always loved that ranch," her mother said. "I wouldn't have changed a thing," her father said. "The occasion has more meaning if you share it," Lori said. In Kansas that day, the meaning was clear enough. Must have been the country...
...this story can be felt in today's Anglo-Irish relations. Verity in On the Zattere also feels out of joint. She is a beautiful 38-year-old woman who has accompanied her widowed father on his annual autumn trip to Venice: "Without meaning to, Verity had taken her mother's place." People in Trevor's stories do not awaken from dreams so much as they fall into the deep sleep of illusion. Nancy Simpson, the ex-chorus girl in Lunch in Winter, muses about her youth while she sits in a hotel bar waiting for the right...