Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement that he helped inspire continues and grows and will not be stopped. We are fortunate today to have with us the woman who has courageously stepped forward to help fill the vast gulf that his death leaves, a woman who has taken upon herself to be mother to four young children and at the same time to replace her husband as minister to the soul of a troubled society. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you, Mrs. Coretta Scott King...
...aftermath of the festival, Betty Nelson even became a heroine of sorts in Sultan. The hippies dubbed her Universal Mother, or U.M. for short, and the townspeople seemed ready to accept that title. As for the Universal Mother herself, she returned cheerfully to her wild raspberries, five children, two horses, two pigs, 75 chickens and an assortment of cats and dogs...
...elder McLain was a semipro shortstop in his youth. He started Denny on his lessons early?both at the keyboard and on the diamond. Denny had trouble deciding which he liked best, the organ or baseball. "He'd be having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play so loud they all could hear him." Says Denny: "I practiced on that organ every night. Sure, I knew...
...Kelly), a clean-cut gun-toting Boy Next Door who mutters his frustrations in asides such as, "You think I can't do any thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror-movie star, collars the killer. "I hardly ever missed...
...James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer. Togetherness swiftly degenerates into apartheid...