Word: mothered
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...Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego; Tom Meyvis, a marketing professor at New York University's Stern School of Business; and Jeff Galak, an NYU doctoral student - asked subjects to watch an episode of the Emmy-winning sitcom Taxi. The episode, "Louie's Mother," originally aired in 1981 (trivia buffs: Julia DeVito, the real-life mother of Danny DeVito, who starred as cab dispatcher Louie De Palma on the show, played the episode's title role). The researchers chose Taxi because the subjects, 87 undergraduates from NYU, had no pre-existing opinion of the show...
...story of two siblings' struggles through the turmoil of the Mao era and the country's transformation under Deng Xiaoping. The coarse, shameless Baldy and his handsome, trustworthy stepbrother Song Gang grow up poor during the Cultural Revolution. They watch as their father is persecuted to death and their mother debilitated with grief. They are orphaned as teenagers and a battle for survival bonds the boys together. But once China adopts capitalism in the 1980s, their paths diverge. The wily Baldy becomes an entrepreneur; Song Gang languishes as a worker in a state-owned factory...
...Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will ditch playing actual symphonies for the “Mother Goose Suite” and an assortment of other short pieces this Saturday—a concert that “promises to be an exception with its accessible themes...
...remains to be seen whether Mother Goose can draw more Dartmouth undergrads away from beerpong to the symphony than usual...
...Knows only a bit of Spanish, the mother tongue of one-third of Catholics in the New York City Archdiocese...