Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inviting friends to come garden with her. Georges Raynaud, Einhorn's 86-year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk to a beautiful blond Swedish girl like her," says Jouaron...
...characters are stylized and predictable, from her distant father and elegant mother to the Swedish personal trainer named Greta. Her parents have all the standard trappings of wealth: mansion in Connecticut, Florida beach house, Aspen condo. Even the psychological background created through carefully spliced-in childhood flashbacks is contrived and formulaic. It is textbook. Her parents were never physical with their child...they were never physical with one another...they never yelled, but "Silence was the weapon" in their household. Jane feels perpetually inferior to them. Estranged from her identity, haunted by her parent's expectations, rejected by medical schools...
...just woke up one morning and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death...
...particularly sensitive on the subject of hyperhygienic Americans, having sprung from folks who were no strangers to the disinfectant bottle. In my mother's later years, she took some pride in visiting distant lands, and she particularly liked Australia. I hadn't thought Australia would hold any charms for her, but then I figured out that she had found it to be the farthest-away clean country...
...hang out at Amman?s first Internet caf? and take spins with Abdullah on his Harley-Davidson. Throw in Rania?s support for Jordanian charities and causes like child-abuse awareness, and you start to see a figure much like Princess Diana. But Rania has good relations with her mother-in-law -- actually, both mothers-in-law. British-born Princess Muna, King Hussein?s second wife and Abdullah?s mom, saw the political worth of a Palestinian princess in a country two-thirds Palestinian. Queen Noor, who won hearts for consoling royals and ordinary citizens, is also close to Rania...