Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters grounded in the simplicities of life, One True Thing gives us something almost unparalleled in recent cinematic memory--the triumph of the ordinary. Soman Chainani...
...Italian woman cheat on her husband?" he asks, confounding his predominantly female Jewish audience. "Because if she did, WHAM!" he adds with a gesture to match. "But a Jewish wife," he continues, "has nothing to lose. She cheats on her husband and what happens--he runs and call his mother." The audience, of course, roars its approval and the consensus of nodding heads makes it clear that no one is taking offense. He proceeds along similar lines for most of the show: "There are no Jewish athletes. All we had was Mark Spitz. He took one swim, got nauseous...
Gina M. Ocon '98-'00, who opted against anabortion, deciding to balance her life as astudent and a mother, says she was also unaware ofUHS's abortion policies--even after she testedpositive in a UHS-administered pregnancy test...
...team did have lots of that heart tugging. Several of the players' parents were in the hospital: Brosius' dad with cancer and Pettitte's with heart trouble. Yankee fans rallied around Wells after he suffered "your mama" jokes from opposing fans who didn't realize that his mother had recently died. Strawberry, the recovering troublemaker, was hospitalized with colon cancer in the middle of the play-offs. So everybody stitched his number on their hats, even ex-teammate Jim Leyritz, who played on the opposing Padres. Hernandez pitched his first American season after paddling on a boat to escape from...
Saddam Hussein has called Washington's bluff, and the U.S. hand is looking shaky. As President Clinton meets Monday with his national security team to discuss Iraq's suspension of U.N. arms inspections, Saddam clearly believes that, absent the mother of all "bimbo eruptions," the U.S. is unlikely to muster the political will and the international support necessary for military action. Which leaves Saddam, improbably, holding most of the aces...