Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the Massachusetts legislature passed a welfare reform bill designed to tighten requirements and stop people from taking advantage of the system. In particular, the bill's supporters sought to crack down on the common welfare stereotype: the lazy mother who sits at home and watches the soaps, relying on welfare--on taxpayer dollars!--to support her for life...
...fans, real fans, fall in love not with wins and losses but with an assortment of characters? We cry for the days of lovable losers, guys who couldn't hit your grand-mother but were your eight-year old son's hero nonetheless...
...ruthless shark. The former populate the safe, static Missouri town of Dena's early youth, and the latter stalk the corridors of Manhattan, where career-obsessed Dena collapses from stress. She's forced finally to confront the hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is utterly irresistible. Its plot...
...years old and I had never f___ed anyone... I wanted to...see what it was like"); whom their relationship might affect (She: "They never told me, never, that I could never see my children again...I would have crossed the border with them"; He: "My mother was going to...kick my ass"); and having a second child (She: "I wanted to have other children with Vili"; He: "I didn't really feel ready for another baby...She should have told me. I wouldn't have looked like such a fool"). Letourneau is serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence...
Duchamp, famous for the signed urinal and The Large Glass, and Joseph Cornell, not so famous for living with his mother in Queens, N.Y., and making densely intricate boxes of ephemera such as apothecary jars, photos, paper clippings and decorated wood cubes, formed a kind of pack-rat pack of two in the '40s after Duchamp enlisted Cornell to work on his portable museum, Boite-en-Valise. Cornell's collection of the trimmings--notes, receipts, old glue boxes--of their meetings forms the Duchamp Dossier and the centerpiece of this show. Neither a great Cornell nor a great Duchamp exhibition...