Word: mumness
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...sudden merged with the night. There are good reasons for driving alone at this hour. But attempting to locate a cell phone signal that may not even exist is probably not one of them. Worst of all, I was trying to call my mum...
...sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout"--which had an eight-year run on London's West...
...Wrinn, a spokesperson for the University, said Harvard’s commitment to its Stem Cell Institute would be large but that administrators had yet to settle on a dollar figure. And materials hyping the institute were largely mum on financing, which will require private donations in order to sidestep federal regulations on embryonic stem cell research...
...What's changed in the quarter-century since I first saw this movie? Possibly my sense of humor. I didn't find "Life of Brian," at least the 30 min. Passion section, much fun this time. The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the filmmaking craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack. Only the strong central metaphor remains: of a fellow who is mistaken for Christ and crucified. "The Last Temptation of Christ" has a similar theme: a man slowly discovers...
...both a preventive and a treatment tool, friends is helping to control childhood distress. For evidence, there are the favorable results of numerous trials - and there are children like Maddison, who was eight when her Dad left home to live with one of her Mum's friends. Previously outgoing, she became increasingly withdrawn and diffident as she struggled with feelings of guilt and confusion. Steered toward Barrett by the family's G.P., Maddison thrived in the friends program. One afternoon last week she sat doing her homework at a desk at Pathways, where her mother, Vikki, works at the front...