Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knockout, fashionable, stunning or even competitive--but darlin'. An old-money wife in her peppy 70s describes her husband's "little log lodge," where "you can lie in bed at night and push the button and the roof opens up so you can see the stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often achieve the Galanos body. Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret...
...Europe, she has already appeared in her new guise as a supersalaried (reportedly $7,000 to $10,000 for a standard photo session) fashion supermodel. It seems like a retake of some 35 years ago, when her mother, Grace Kelly, was a model before becoming a movie star. She projected a serene, society-page sexiness. Stephanie has a contem- porary appeal: athletic, funky, challenging. She has been a mannequin only a few months, but she is on the cusp of signing a hefty contract with the Italian designer Enrico Coveri (exact figures to be publicized only when...
...base was lined with police barricades. An officer was stationed every 12 ft. along the way; 2,000 policemen from neighboring towns had been summoned for the duty. Jewish protesters were permitted to stand at one road near the cemetery. One of them, Dov Hikind, an American whose mother had survived Auschwitz, said angrily, "I still can't believe I am here to see my President rehabilitate the SS." Sixty members of the World Jewish Student Union held a vigil in the town square. Reagan came close to a protest scene only as his motorcade passed through the downtown area...
...greatest play, The Glass Menagerie, Williams portrayed his mother, clinging to outworn social "standards" to validate her life, and his withdrawn sister Rose, her madness and eventual lobotomy transmuted onstage into shyness and a limp. His own surrogate alternated between cries of self- justification and outpourings of guilt. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams depicted the brute half of himself, Stanley Kowalski, destroying the fragile, distracted half, Blanche DuBois...
Ezejo-Okoye was born in England but spent most of his first four years in Nigeria. A few months after the Nigeria-Biafra war broke out. Ezeji-Okoye, his mother and sister escaped on a French ammunitions plane and returned to England...