Word: motherism
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...Gibbs' essay reminded me of my father's long-ago death, which shocked us because it was both sudden and solitary (it happened at home while my mother and I were away). As I read, I remembered all the wonderful moments we shared over the twenty-some years I had him in my life: how he made me a kite to fly in our backyard, how I saluted him before he went away to war in 1942, how proud he was when he held my infant sons for the first time. Those memories are all the more precious...
...Kelly's stellar career is at stake. Robert Kelly, 41, was born on Chicago's South Side, raised by a mother who worked as a singer and, occasionally, a waitress. He hardly knew his father. Kelly got noticed performing hits by Stevie Wonder and the Isley Bothers on Chicago street corners. In the early 1990s, he burst onto the national music scene as both a solo singer and the producer of hits like Michael Jackson's 1995 silky "You Are Not Alone...
...media lottery" for one of a handful of courtroom seats. It's unclear if the man at the center of the case will testify. These aren't all of Kelly's worries: He's embroiled in a divorce from his wife, Andrea, one of his former dancers and the mother of his three children. Mayer, Kelly's spokesman, says the singer has been holed up in his suburban Chicago home, recording in a basement studio from 6 p.m. to about 1 a.m., afterwhich he breaks to play basketball in a nearby gym. He's recorded enough songs to release...
...already sprawling Austrian family, locked his teenage daughter Elisabeth into a converted nuclear shelter underneath his house in the town of Amstetten so he could rape her at will. His incestuous abuse led to the birth of seven children, three of whom he kept imprisoned underground with their mother. Until April 26, when Austrian authorities discovered Fritzl's lair, reality for those children stretched no further than their dank, windowless confines, their mother's memories of the outside, and a television...
...don’t think things can get any more bizarre—it’s not every day that you wake up and see 10-foot flames bursting out of a manhole cover,” said Timothy J. Smith ’08, who said his mother had woken him up after seeing the report on the morning news. “I think we’re lucky that some poor sap didn’t get blasted to the moon early Friday morning—that’s the first thing I thought...