Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courage to mention the unthinkable: manners [LIVING, Nov. 5]. As the mother of three children, I found your story gave me the much needed support and encouragement to continue my tireless nagging...
...astronaut, looking like a modern knight-errant in shining space suit, sallies forth into the darkness, powered by a Buck Rogers backpack called an MMU (manned maneuvering unit). Armed with a space-age lance nicknamed the stinger, he spears a stray satellite and rockets back to the mother ship. There, silhouetted against the shimmering earth some 225 miles below, he spins along at 17,500 m.p.h., shouldering his prize like a sci-fi Atlas...
...film provides an obligatory cast of conventional characters. Claire(Carrie Fischer) is Gilly's indulged, Beverly Hills wife. Fischer, dressed in pastel, silk dressing gowns, is tight lipped and affected. Needless to say she doesn't approve of her eccentric mother-in-law. Her lack of empathy makes Gilly turn to Jane(Catherine Hicks), an aspiring actress, who does deep breathing and tells Gilly about her sexual fantasies on the elevator at work. Claire's spoiled, Jane's daffy, and the result is facile...
Despite Rabassa's attachment to Latin America, he prefers to live in an English-speaking environment. Born of a Cuban father and an American mother, he has spent most of his life in the North eastern U.S. He did go to Brazil for 18 months on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in the mid-1960s, but that was long enough...
...Elisabeth Trissenaar), the snoop-exhibitionist next door (Marie-Christine Barrault), even Paulina's seven-year-old son. He discovers them flagrante delicto in the storeroom; Mama eyes him solemnly, closes the door and returns to her pleasure. "Me, beautiful?" Paulina remarks to Stani. "But I could be your mother." And Stani replies: "My mother is beautiful too." This is a suicidal passion that condemns the lovers with every caress, but they are oblivious to the consequences. Paulina visits Stani in the stable where he works, and their intensity literally frightens the horses...