Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chevrolet Celebrity, deadheading back to Boston from Logan Airport, is pulled over by a Boston policeman. The offense: an expired inspection sticker; the fine: $50. But not for a car bearing license plate STATE 1 that moments earlier had Massachusetts' favorite son riding in the rear passenger seat. A warning will...
...conversation with her starts like any other between a mother and son. She asks me first about school, and later, why I stay out so late all of the time. But then, these innocent discussions usually turn into another one of her brainwashing sessions...
...son of Russian immigrants to France, Erwitt was born Elio Romano Erwitz in 1928 and moved to Italy at an early age. In 1938, his family was forced to leave the country because of Mussolini's fascist policies. Three years later, Erwitt and his father settled in southern California, where he bought his first camera, an antique glass plate...
...prodigal son hesitantly calls his father from a phone booth in the rain. He wants to come home. Ecstatic Dad rings up his other son to pass on the good news. But Son No. 2 isn't too happy and calls up Mom to gripe. Mom suggests, "Call him." What's going on? Will the next phone call explain the family feud...
Curiously enough, not much is known about his life. Jones was a clothworker's son, and he began his career as a journeyman painter. Quite early on, in his mid-20s, he went in the Earl of Rutland's retinue through France and Germany, and then to Italy, where he may have spent five years. How he afforded that stay is a mystery; one theory holds that Jones, who never married and may have been homosexual, was kept by one or another of the powerful exquisites of the Elizabethan court, the Earl of Essex or the Earl of Southampton...