Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss my family," a young laborer on Olympic Boulevard said the other morning. In his village he has a wife, three children, a mother and an invalid sister he supports. With the money he earns in construction work or cutting lawns, his family gets along well at home, but would be terribly poor in East Los Angeles. So he works for two months, goes home for a month and returns. The loneliness is the only thing that gets him down...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...
Humanity itself is here an endangered species. One story introduces a cheap carnival girl whose "act" requires her to spend all day being licked by a bat; another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example...
...pageant board, hastily called in response to an announcement by Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 53, that Williams will be featured in nude, extremely explicit love scenes with another woman on ten pages of the skin mag's September issue. According to the beauty queen's mother, Freelance Photographer Tom Chiapel took the black-and-white pictures two summers ago while Williams was working as a makeup artist and receptionist at a model agency. She reportedly signed a release and made little or no money from the photo session. Why the pictures surfaced now, just two months before...
...apple of his glowing mother's eye, but Nastassja Kinski's black-haired baby has the looks of the actress's Egyptian lover, Ibrahim Moussa, 37. Delivered by caesarean section in a Rome clinic three weeks ago, Aljosha Nakzynski will soon travel with his mother to join Moussa in Monte Carlo, where the talent agent and film producer has just switched careers and is learning the ropes as an international representative for the Bulgari jewelry company...