Word: motherlessness
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...Motherless Sons. The most savage sequence is a telephone game blundered into by Alan (Peter White), a possible "straight" who was once the host's college roommate. Each player must dial, and then blurt "I love you" to the person he holds dearest. All the players are stoned out of their minds, but not out of their situations. Amid the four-letter confrontations, ugly-and sometimes beautiful-revelations occur, until finally the game's inventor is buried alive in a landslide of truths...
...know, our music, rocknrollmusic, you know, s'got its roots in gospel, rhythm and blues. That's where it all sprang from." And then the Blossoms--remember the Blossoms? Hullabaloo? --come out and they do "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Chile," while this incredible black dancer does a dance that everyone in the room likes. They liked a dancer on a TV special. No one likes dancers on TV. They always prance around and mince. These guys were studs, they had the moves. Then the Lieber-Stoller classic "I'm Saved," with Elvis leading...
This is a typically enigmatic bit of dialogue from Nicholas Mosley's recent thriller Accident, and it seems to apply even more to his new one, Assassins, which is half mystery, half "people knowing." During a top-level international conference, the motherless 14-year-old daughter of the British Foreign Secretary is kidnaped by a would-be political assassin. Her fate is in the hands of three of her elders: the chief government security officer, her father and his secretary, who is also his mistress. The latter is a disturbing woman- passive, manipulative, all things to the weaknesses...
FAMILY AFFAIR (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). In this episode, Bill Davis' priceless butler, French, is unexpectedly called away and his brother Nigel (John Williams) offers to fill in as chief cook, bottlewasher and lion tamer in the motherless household of a boy and two girls-all of which leads to complications, especially when a group fishing trip is in the offing...
...Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child...