Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff has been saying bad stuff about my staff in the press, and I'm tired of it." Livingston's temper surfaced notoriously in a floor speech during the 1995 budget battle. "We will stay here until doomsday," he bellowed, arms flailing. Later he admitted that even his mother thought he looked like "a raving lunatic...
...rain into Casitas's crater, the mountainside burst with what villagers described as the angry roar of a jetliner. It hurled mud, water and rock onto Posoltega's rooftops, "a terrible, towering wall that just fell out of the clouds," says Santo Diaz, 24. Diaz gathered his elderly father, mother, sister and two brothers to escape--but the avalanche claimed them. He was still clutching their hands as they were buried alive...
BELINDA LUSCOMBE's article this week on the resurgence of 1950s architecture and design allowed her to explore a genre that has played an unusual role in her life. "My mother made a cake for my wedding in the shape of Le Corbusier's 1955 chapel in Ronchamp, France," she says. "It was the subject of my husband's thesis. My thesis was on the poetry of Matthew Arnold--lousy cake material." Fortunately for us, Luscombe veered away from poetry, and her native Australia, to land at TIME, where for three years she has employed her characteristic wit to write...
...tormentor that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag refrigerator man. Coach Klein, sensing the geyser of anger that he could harness, offers the waterboy a position on the team. Unfortunately, Bobby has to hide his moonlighting as a linebacker and college student from his disapproving, overprotective mother. Bobby quickly learns techniques of inner visualization to invoke his repressed aggression, which means trouble for the world outside the football field. In one of the funniest scenes, Bobby, now in college on scholarship, tackles his professor, a hilarious academic look-alike of Colonel Sanders of "Kentucky Fried Chicken" fame...
...purifying every drop of water, which he distributes to the players with a contraption reminiscent of the Ghostbusters' particle-beam backpacks. The waterboy is fired after Coach Red (Jerry Reed) decides that the players are excessively distracted by his innocent, aqueous ambition. Bobby returns home for condolence from his mother (Kathy Bates, who seems stuck between her roles in Misery and Titanic). At this point, the endless volley of "bayou" jokes begins, ranging from a dinner of medium rare python to a disproportionate propensity for missing teeth. At first, these are gross and funny, but eventually become just gross. Amazingly...