Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides but mused, sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please and the magazine publishes as it pleases. When the two pleasures coincide, something gets into print." He also turned his hand to cartoon captions ("Mother: 'It's broccoli, dear.' Child: 'I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.' ") and to "Newsbreaks," those column-ending snippets of published gaffes, capped by New Yorker quips. A Pittsburgh paper once garbled as follows: "Gent's laundry taken home. Or serve at parties at night...
...post-World War I French occupation force, she grew up in the affluent Paris suburb of Neuilly. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, her father, a Jew, fled to Britain to join Charles de Gaulle's Free French army. Simone remained in France with her family, adopting her mother's maiden name --Signoret--to escape detection by the Nazis, and worked as a secretary for the Paris daily Les Nouveaux Temps...
Collecting child support from a divorced father who does not want to pay is almost impossible--just ask any single mother who has tried hounding a tightfisted ex. But a set of federal laws that took effect last week should put more pressure on feckless fathers. Called the Child Support Enforcement Amendments, they require states to deduct support obligations from a delinquent's paycheck or lose out on some federal welfare funds (22 states already have similar programs...
...trigger for the violence was an early-morning raid on a house by nine police officers searching for a teenager who was suspected of possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The youth's mother confronted the police after they had battered down her front door. Apparently fearing that the armed youth was inside, a police inspector fired a .38-cal. pistol. The shot struck the woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young...
...trouble is, Richler can't make fun of the condition because he suffers from it. He harbors so much anger, presumably owing to his own mother, or to his own miserable upbringing in Montreal, that his novel gets bogged down by sheer malice. The fictional Joshua's mother is absurd--a vain, floozy stripper--and his coarse father (adequately played by Alan Arkin, in the film's only good performance) lives a cliche. Richler's story of Jewish lust/angst was better served by Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint...