Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returning to Plains, Ga With a nod to Rodney Dangerfield. Carter spoke of a Trivial Pursuit question recently posed to him: "Do you know who said. When I look at my children I wished I had remained a virgin" After brief applause, Carter said. "I he answer was my mother...
Virginia Johnson is Giselle, the sheltered daughter of a protective mother, and her dancing throughout is that of a subdued girl--partly due to choreography that at times fails to parallel the rising climaxes in Adolphe Adam's music...
Where to from here? While we hope that Rajiv Gandhi learned much in the way of political skill during his two year apprenticeship under his mother, we also hope that he has vision enough to see the error of her ways. He should proceed as planned with the January elections and prove that the democratic process is alive and not endangered by nepotism. The future of a united India depends not on the extension of family rule but the health of democratic institutions. In the past these institutions have displayed a remarkable resilience. India weathered two years of emergency rule...
...parent can terrify a child without actually doing anything," says Nicholas, 18, a freshman at Harvard. Jacobina, 13, plays the harp and studies at a private school in Washington. Once when Martin relayed a prying reporter's request to interview the whole family at home, Jacobina objected, "But mother, I wasn't brought up in that manner...
...movie will not lack for churning, monster-a-minute energy. The plot is the oldest in literature, a quest: confront the Minotaur, find the Holy Grail, follow the yellow brick road. Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer is sheltering unhappily in an empty New Hampshire tourist hotel, where his mother Lily, a washed-up B-movie queen, is wasting away with cancer. A mysterious old black man named Speedy, who tends a carrousel, hints that if Jack can reach California and find something called the talisman, all will be well. Part of the journeying will be through a parallel world called...