Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crime Wave, a collection of reportage and short fiction, mixes truth and fiction without blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime...
Ellroy's prose is hard-hitting and relentless. His self-revelations are just as unflinching. From the non-fiction side of the book, "I hated and lusted for my mother and went at her through postmortem surrogates. I buried her in haste and burned flames for other murdered women. My mother's death corrupted and emboldened my imagination....I majored in crime and minored in vivisected women." It becomes difficult...
From the days our mother told us, "no running in the house," we knew she was really saying, "Don't knock over the Ming vase please...
...While their perfect synchrony and physically rigorous technique approaches the martial arts, the group expresses an infectious playfulness and joy. Kodo reveal a childlike approach to drumming in the Japanese characters of their name, which can mean either "children of the drum" or "heartbeat," the original rhythm of the mother's heartbeat as first heard in the womb...
...after coming of age in a secluded private residential school. she is escorted to her affluent family's home is San Francisco by her eager and understanding father Radley Tate (Skerritt). There Carla is greeted by her two sisters Caroline and Heather, Caroline's new fiance and an overbearing mother (Keaton). Ambitious Carla Soon enrolls at Bay Tech Junior College where she meets Daniel McMare (Ribisi), another mentally challenged 20-something student. Danny, unlike Carla, attended mainstream public school and now lives on is own through her relationship with Danny, which later becomes romantic, Carla realizes and seeks independence, something...