(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
(3) A previous, tentative assignment based solely on indirect evidence [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J.
(4) In the preceding paper [Bairaktari, E., Mierke, D.F., Mammi, S., & Peggion, E. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] the conformational preferences of these peptides in the presence of SDS surfactant micelles, a mimetic for biological membranes, were examined.
(5) The circular dichroism spectra in these two media have the same shape, indicative of a similar preferred conformation [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J., Foffani, M. T., Peggion, E., Moroder, L., & Wünsch, E. (1987) Biopolymers 26, S1-S10].
(6) Mammy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Happily serving a white family: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind.
(7) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
(8) Gone is the general disdain for mammy cookie jars, Aunt Jemima dolls and pencils in the form of alligators eating black children - a motif used to promote the early tourist trade in Florida.
(9) These household objects "didn't really become a souvenir market until the late 20th century," according to Kenneth W Goings, a professor at Memphis University and author of Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping.
(10) Yet another common product is the mammy peg-board - a wall board with a picture of a mammy, hand to her head, announcing "I gots to Git" and the pegs indicating which groceries need to be bought.
(11) He went down on his knee again and sang "mammy" and the troops wept and cheered.
(12) Bidding on a mammy memo-holder, a large board with a picture of a mammy holding a pencil, with a memo-pad apron, had risen to $14.
(13) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.
Mommy
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(1) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
(2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
(3) He dubbed Marco Rubio “Little Marco”; said Jeb Bush needed the help of his “mommy” to get elected; and referred to the size of his own penis in a televised debate.
(4) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
(5) "It's made of a hard-coated polycarbonate" (isn't that plastic , mommy?)
(6) The first stimulus (MOMMY AND I ARE ONE) was intended to activate unconscious symbiotic fantasies that in a number of prior studies reduced pathology in groups of relatively differentiated schizophrenics.
(7) The other stimuli were intended to activate reassuring unconscious fantasies about "mommy" that were not specifically symbiosis-related.
(8) The Jury prize is shared by Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language Whoops and cheers in the press room as Dolan's name is called out.
(9) Only the MOMMY AND I ARE ONE stimulus led to more adaptive behavior and did so on all three dependent variables.
(10) Then, in different sessions, in counterbalanced order, each patient received one of three experimental (or "critical") stimuli: a) a neutral control stimulus; b) a message--CANNIBAL EATS PERSON--intended to activate aggressive ideation; c) a message--I AM LOSING MOMMY--intended to activate fantasies of object loss.
(11) • Gallery: how the night unfolded • Peter Bradshaw's take Reviews of the winners • Winter Sleep • The Wonders • Mommy • Goodbye to Language • Foxcatcher • Mr Turner • Maps to the Stars • Leviathan
(12) The control stimulus for all groups was the message PEOPLE ARE WALKING and the experimental stimuli were the messages MOMMY AND I ARE ONE, MOMMY IS ALWAYS WITH ME, MOMMY FEEDS ME WELL, and I CANNOT HURT MOMMY (one for each group).
(13) The two appear in a corner of the exhibit while visitors yell, “Somebody call the zoo!” and “Mommy’s right here!” The station did not air portions of the video showing the gorilla dragging the boy.
(14) She closed the show with a tour-de-force medley from Beyoncé , the “visual album” she unexpectedly dropped in December, before accepting the Video Vanguard Award from husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy, who – with her adorable, mommy-inspired dance moves – was arguably the MVP of the night.
(15) In the subliminal condition (4 ms exposure time), subjects shown the experimental message "Mommy is Leaving Me" ate significantly fewer crackers than those exposed to the neutral message "Mona is Loaning It" (p = .04).
(16) Another gay couple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2".
(17) "I share Aronowitz's concern that mommy bloggers aren't flying the feminist flag, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," wrote one new mom and feminist .
(18) Britain's Sam Taylor-Johnson has been named as the surprise choice to direct the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of "mommy porn" literary sensation Fifty Shades of Grey .
(19) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
(20) I can remember being home one day and there was a knock at the door – a guy selling something – and he said, 'Hon, is your mommy home?'