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Fired of lighting the Sabbath candles alone? Too busy to find the perfect Jewish boy/girl to bring home to Momma...
...Double Oh-Oh," SOMBJAF's first and most danceable cut, starts Clinton's assault. A metallic beat carves its way through a dense vocal arrangement as singers trade licks on the subject of spies and sperms. By the end, there are two clear meanings to a wailing momma's screams: "Who. Is. For my coun-try? Who. Is. For me?" Love and patriotism, yoked together via the healing power of funk, have been bizarrely fused. At least, that's my guess...
...privacy of the voting booth. She says, "I'm from West Virginia. I find, in the family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give up.' " A Cleveland policeman guarding the desolate shopping area says, "Ferraro is one hell of a lady. I just wish we could have Reagan with her." A surprising number of people, men and women, talk about that...
...partly in rebellion against his money grubbing father that Jamie refuses to make good and flaunts his habit of frequenting bars and beds of whores. In addition, Jamie resents Edmund, always "Momma's baby, Poppa's pet", who now show budding writing talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
...time she died at 88 in 1962, "Momma" Loehmann was a force in the retailing of women's clothing...