Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heiskell urged the students to "honor individuality, while you oppose an individual or his group-for it has made you yourself. Honor your father and mother, and their parents before them, while you despise what was done to them-for they have given you your perseverance and strength. And bless your color-for in the history of nations it will forever be known that it was the black American who caused the reformation of this society-and the restoration of this republic to the principles on which it was founded...
...Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that is vital, for a Russian takes his father's first name as his middle name and is commonly addressed by his own first name plus the patronymic...
...father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again in separate dooms...
With so little plot, there is ample time for assorted stage business. At one point, two men simulate making love to the nympho, sandwich-fashion. At another, a mother opens her blouse to suckle her grown son. As in The Beard, there is a vivid portrayal of an oral sex act. Director Tom O'Horgan, who also staged Hair and Tom Paine, keeps his cast dancing around in a style that blends early Martha Graham with late Cotton Club...
...Portis has succeeded in creating in Mattie Ross a triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...