Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promotional effort yesterday ended early when the escort led his bunnies back through the Yard and home to the Bunny Mother. A Newsweek editor visiting Harvard stared at them a long time, but the rest of the people in the Yard hardly noticed...
...Leandro practice, Dr. Martin has 90 patients aged three to 20 on methylphenidate, and he reports uniformly good results. One of his greatest satisfactions is hearing a mother say: "Now I can love this child again...
...that modest illumination, John Cleary (Jack Albertson) and his wife Nettie (Patricia Neal) welcome home their son Timmy (Martin Sheen) from World War II. Ostensibly the occasion is a celebration. But beneath the boozy jubilation rages another war-one between a mother and father for the possession of their...
...teetering skirmish, each side uses its leverage to unbalance Timmy. His mother is wounded by his sudden indifference to her demands. His father, who no longer enters his wife's bed, becomes a figure of sputtering frustration, visiting "hotel-lobby whores" and cursing what he loves. His incessant fulminations undo him; he wastes his thunder on minor disappointments, and he is empty when he gets the truly bad news that Timmy has abandoned the church...
...performances by Albertson and Sheen are transferred from Broadway with every nuance intact. As the mother, Patricia Neal makes her first appearance in films since her paralytic stroke in 1965. It would be worth waiting a decade for. She retains her vast resources of energy and intelligence. Yet she has altered in appearance and style. Her face is still lovely, but it has assumed a melancholy dignity, no longer fresh, but not quite old, like a fine linen tablecloth preserved for special occasions. Her acting is neither shrewd underplaying nor is it larger than life; it is exactly life-sized...