Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says that the other dress -- indeed, dresses -- was no canard. A slew of them, including the black one, was packed up by prosecutors after that first unfruitful closet search. (The blue dress, you'll recall, had been stashed at Monica's mother's.) And several did have suspicious-looking stains on the front, which were subsequently tested by the FBI. The result, says Shannon, was anticlimactic: "Apparently, Monica was a sloppy eater." So it seems Monica's wardrobe could lead in two directions: to the White House or the Golden Arches...
...Charles, who arrived last week, all 7.5 lbs. and 20.5 in. of him. Foster has steadfastly refused to name the father and intends to bring up the child alone, or as alone as movie stars ever are. But she has a good example of single motherhood to follow: her mother Brandy raised Foster and her three siblings on her own. And Jodie turned out O.K. "Anybody who has a child is fearful of not measuring up," she told the New York Daily News. "But I hope I'll have some of [my mother's] passion...
GESTURES: Your mother was right. Don't point. But if in Singapore you must, use your thumb, not your forefinger, lest it be taken as an insult or obscenity. In Russia, don't shake hands across a threshold; it might invite bad luck. In Buddhist lands like Burma, don't pat a child on the head; it's the spiritually highest part of the body...
...Paula Jones has got herself a new nose, I hope it turns out to be, as my mother would have put it, cute as a button. Self-improvement is the American way. I was not among those who made snide remarks about Linda Tripp's makeover. Just because your behavior calls to mind Victor McLaglen in The Informer, there is no law that says you have to look like him as well...
...blood seeping from torn flesh. Although Perry has clearly read her Toni Morrison, her insights into slavery are no more piercing than, say, Steven Spielberg's in Amistad. But to be fair, this debut novel is not really about remembering that peculiar institution; it's about healing relationships between mothers and daughters. The twist: Lizzie is both daughter and mother...