Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEWISH MOTHER culls some of the feebler witticisms from Dan Greenburg's fitfully satiric guidebook and further dilutes them with a few primitive racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge wearing little-boy clothes (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home, yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...high taxes could drain it all. When he died last summer at 32 of an overdose of barbiturates, Epstein left an estate of about $1,200,000, which after taxes and debts comes to $638,400. Epstein had no will, and the money will go to his mother...
...almost completely opposite to U.S. plans or inventions, the Saigon government and press took great offense. Saigon newspapers charged Martin with being a "colonialist," and demanded his expulsion. One paper ran a poem accusing him of every known vice and concluding: "You s.o.b., and your father and your mother and all your family and all your ancestors." More direct action was also threatened. Getting word that ARVN soldiers planned to sack the villa in which Newsweek is quartered, Martin had bars put on the windows...
...voracious reader of everything from Shakespeare to detective fiction -which he uses to "turn off"-Gilmore has managed to become a recognized authority on the Byzantine period. His psychiatrist wife-the mother of their two grown children-owns a superb 600-piece collection of Japanese art. For all that peripheral culture, however, he is not much good at small talk; when he entertains, he especially likes to have students over in an effort to get closer to what they are thinking...
...high school, where he had an opportunity to peer through a small telescope one night and saw the craters of the moon and the rings of Saturn. "I was so excited," he recalls, "that I couldn't sleep nights and would stay outdoors staring at the stars. My mother was convinced that I had gone mad and talked of taking me to a doctor...