Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reportedly, it was Kennedy Schlossberg who made sure that Friday's memorial service was small and private, at an upper Manhattan church that their mother attended, instead of in a large cathedral where the world could freely gawk. And one saw her fingerprints on the decision to cremate John and his two fellow passengers and spread their ashes to the waves in a U.S. Navy "commitment at sea." (As son of the captain of PT 109 ?- and the commander-in-chief ?- John was certainly entitled; the courtesy was extended to include his wife and her sister.) To the accompaniment...
Dawson says he's trying to live up to the example set by his late mother Bessie, a laundress. He watched as she helped others who were less fortunate, even when she could barely feed her family. She made Dawson and his siblings promise always to "give something back," no matter how little. It's a lesson he took with him back in 1940 when he headed for Detroit...
...received an honorary degree from Wayne State, plus a Trumpet award for philanthropy from Turner Broadcasting System (owned by the same parent company as TIME). He shrugs at such honors. "I just want to be remembered," he says, "as an individual who tried to do some good." His mother would be proud...
Redford's mother-henning is one come-on, the setting another. The morning sound and smell of creek water under a wooden footbridge, the afternoon light on lush summer grass, the green-walled canyons climbing the evening sky--anyone who can't draw creative inspiration from this place should probably be shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs. "It's like you're in a bubble," Plimpton says. "Nothing else exists when you're here." Not Hollywood, not Top 10 lists, not even makeup...
...Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent into the world of heroin addiction and prostitution...