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  Big mama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Big mamas act quite openly, and are not at all reluctant to admit that they are censoring and why.
Actions of big mama are generally taken more with annoyance and amusement than with alarm, and there is often some humourous bantering with big mama.
They note that the actions of big mama are confined to deleting objectionable postings, and that there is no effort made to track down posters and punish them, and that replacing them with Chinese government officials would have a far more chilling effect on discussion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_mama   (348 words)

  
 California Newsreel - BIG MAMA
Winner of an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category, Big Mama depicts a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her orphaned grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult social welfare system.
Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles.
Big Mama candidly chronicles the family when life deals them several blows.
www.newsreel.org /films/bigmama.htm   (557 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Big Mama: Books: Tony Crunk,Margot Apple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Big Mama encourages the kids' imaginations, joins in their games, makes them take responsibility for their mistakes, and turns a late-afternoon trip to the ice-cream stand into a memorable trek through town.
Big Mama is a wonderful story about a special grandmother who not only provides love and teaches responsibility to her orphaned grandson Billy, but to all his friends as well.
Big Mama teaches the children that they are responsible for their actions.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374306885?v=glance   (790 words)

  
 Big Mama
Big Mama is a Californian that weighs around 12 pounds and she was adopted on 6/13/99 at the same time that we got Casper.
Big Mama had been taken by the woman from the Ashtabula Humane Society to Michigan Rabbit Rescue and adoption where she had been fostered by another woman named Nicole.
Big Mama was eating and pooping and drinking and moving around.
www.mybunnies.com /bigmama.htm   (785 words)

  
 Live Entertainment - Big Mama Sue Productions
Big Mama Sue is famous for her ample resources (musical resources, that is).
Big Mama Sue boasts almost three decades of jazz festival performances, with an amazing 150+ appearances at festivals around the world to her professional credit.
Big Mama Sue and her band offer two additional and important benefits: variety and versatility.
www.bigmamasue.com /rent   (2134 words)

  
 Walter Mosley.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Big Mama told me that my mother, her name was Psalma, had a boyfriend over at the Williams Plantation but she would never tell anybody who he was because she didn't want him getting into trouble for sneaking out to see her in the big house at night.
Big Mama didn't want to beat me but she did anyway because Tobias was watching.
Albert and Champ loved Big Mama and so they told her that they would take me under their wings when I had to go out in the slave quarters and live with the rough element out there.
www.twbookmark.com /features/waltermosley/47_excerpt.html   (2055 words)

  
 Big Mama Thornton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born in Montgomery, Alabama one of seven children.
It was here that she was given the nickname “Big Mama” A large, tall woman the name went well with both her stature and vocal coarseness and tension.
In 1951 "Big Mama" signed with Peacock records and in 1952 she recorded a song written for her by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller.
www.jukefm.com /featartist/1202artist.htm   (433 words)

  
 Big Mama's Joint
You may think it strange that Big Mama calls that a problem, but for our school system, it is. When fl and brown children, particularly boys, do not fit the stereotypical mold expected, these schools do not know what to do with them.
Big Mama often envied Y-Factor for her more calm and sophisticated approach to parent activism.
Big Mama is extremely tickled to welcome CL in Chicago to her house.
bigmamasjoint.blogspot.com   (9860 words)

  
 Big Momma's House (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Big Mamma's House" offers exactly what you would expect in a comedy featuring Martin Lawrence dressing up as an old, grossly obese granny; this is a one-joke movie in which an undercover cop disguises himself as Big Mamma and participates in things we anticipate Big Mamma normally would not do.
There are some big laughs involved with the size of the title character, as well as her with breasts, attitude, sexuality, and ignorance, but there are also some obvious audience pleasers that feel contrived.
Sherry is somewhat aware of the danger she may be in, thus moves immediately to her relative's house, whom everyone calls Big Mamma (Ella Mitchell).
www.imdb.com /title/tt0208003   (792 words)

  
 Ebony: Bring back Big Mama
And "the hardheaded" (Big Mama's words) ignored such advice at their peril, because as grandmother predicted, you would return, beaten by the world, to be soothed by her gnarled hands.
Big Mama may not be able to single-handedly right all that is wrong in Black America.
But she can instill the fortitude to stay the course, no matter how bumpy, to walk through the doors, once they open, and to hold the position with honor, once it is attained.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_7_59/ai_n6132227   (674 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: THORNTON, WILLIE MAE [BIG MAMA]
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, blues singer and songwriter, was born on December 11, 1926, in Montgomery, Alabama, one of seven children.
Big Mama flew from Houston in 1953 back to New York for Peacock-Duke records to the "Hound Dog" sessions.
As a female in a male-dominated profession, Big Mama Thornton made an indelible mark on the music world with her Texas-sized voice and confident lyrics.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/TT/fthpg.html   (729 words)

  
 BIG MAMA - Facilitator Guide
Big Mama follows 18 months in the life of Viola Dees (89 years old) as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorities that she can care for her grandson, 9-year-old Walter.
The Big Mama discussion guide is authored by Niamh McGarry, who has 15 years writing and editing experience with journals, magazines and newspapers in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
She has specialized in writing on medical and social issues, and is a former associate editor at Aging Today, the national newspaper of the American Society on Aging.
www.newsreel.org /guides/BigMamaGuide.htm   (2241 words)

  
 DVD Review: Big Bad Mama - Special Edition
Unfortunately, Polly, who happens to have a problem keeping her clothes on, is caught with the local deputy’s son and Mama has to spend all their cash to pay off the corrupt, jelly-loving sheriff.
Mama, however, has a habit of sleeping with the men she considers business partners and (gratuitous sex scene alert) Fred is no exception.
Her Mama is not only one of the screen’s all-time bad ass chicks that paved the way for Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, and Angelina Jolie to name a few but is also one of the first liberated action heroines that shamelessly used her sex appeal to get what she wanted from men.
dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_10660.php/DVD_Review_Big_Bad_Mama_-_Special_Edition   (1124 words)

  
 'Big Mama' is a tower of strength
And I get people to help people," said the woman who calls herself Big Mama, and who seems to be universally known by her self-assigned title from the gritty neighborhood where she lives to Fort Lauderdale's City Hall.
"Big Mama is a continuous conduit of blessing, goodness and discipline to youth," said Tim Dobbins, director of outreach at the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, which has helped Reed in many of her activities.
For three years, Big Mama said, she and her children slept on the floor of the fish market she then owned in neighboring Pompano Beach, her hometown.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/01/MNGKIGE91F1.DTL&feed=rss.news   (948 words)

  
 ~ BIG MAMA ~ eco yatch charters ~
BIG MAMA offers sailing on your own fully crewed and provisioned charter sailing yacht in some of the most beautiful and untouched reef and island systems on the planet.
Customise your own cruise itinerary for the activities you most want to do and to plan which islands and reefs you would most like to visit.
The only vessel of its type, doing what we do, where we do it, BIG MAMA offers any length of charter - a half-day, overnight, a week or longer - with emphasis varying from great sailing, a large variety of fishing, snorkelling, scuba diving, island hopping, bird watching and beach combing.
www.bigmama.com.au   (238 words)

  
 Big Mama's - The Clarion-Ledger
Big Mama's is a hands-on kind of place and Big Mama is a hands-on kind of woman.
The menu at Big Mama's changes daily, but the static offerings include the classics — catfish, chicken, collared greens and macaroni and cheese.
For Big Mama, soul food is almost a way of life, something that she takes pleasure in.
www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050818/FEAT0104/508180343/101   (345 words)

  
 Review for Big Bad Mama
Mama's goals go from selling bootleg whiskey to kidnapping a millionaire's daughter, with a few minor acts of armed robbery in between.
The moonshine business was not working out very well anyway, Polly is caught partially dressed with the deputy's son and it takes all their cash to buy off the sheriff.
After Mama meets up with Diller and Baxter you have a very untidy love triangle going on, though it could be any number of shapes after Fred starts having threesomes with Billy Jean and Polly.
www.badmovies.org /movies/bigbadmama   (716 words)

  
 Valotte: Big Mama
"Big Mama" can be found on the B-side of the US "Say You're Wrong" 7" single as well as on the 12" UK single of "Too Late For Goodbyes." Julian also performed "Big Mama" during his Valotte tour and it can be found on the "Stand By Me" documentary video of the tour.
One has like a semi-hard rock track called "Big Mama," which is a total different approach but it still has a warm feeling about it, but it's hard rock." The other b-side is Bebop
Big Mama's gonna kill you and there's no anecdote
www.heyjules.com /lyrics/bigmamma.html   (202 words)

  
 Big Mama's Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In each Care Pack are postcards with the addresses of the donors requesting the families who receive the Care Packs to write in a month an update Back on Track as to their situation and location, so they can be shipped another Care Pack.
By Tuesday night, Big Mama's Church of Portland, Oregon had taken Back on Track on as a mission.
The researchers have discovered other murals amid the debris, including one on the ceiling of a collapsed cave near the foot of the mountainside where the Buddhist statues were carved.
www.bigmamaschurch.com   (3045 words)

  
 Big Mama's Joint: "It's not about race"
Welcome to Big Mama's Joint, where Big Mama, CL and Y-Factor share their innermost thoughts and feelings and offer free advice.
When Big Mama read about Maureen Jagmin's now infamous "poor flie" tirade caught on tape, she noticed that those involved with the the predominantly white Chicago schools who decided to break away from SICA, were beginning to sound a bit like parrots.
But, Big Mama realized...the statement is, in fact, true.
bigmamasjoint.blogspot.com /2005/03/its-not-about-race.html   (835 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings: Music: Big Mama Thornton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His version may be an imitation, but it still kicks ass....Big Mama deserved more credit than she got...I mean the woman has soul and funk....Both versions should be appreciated for what they are- kick ass good music...But Elvis still rules in my book...
Big Mama has a big growlin' voice, I mean she could eat Big Maybelle for breakfast(though Maybelle is an equally versitile and great performer).
Mama had a hit in Hound Dog way brfore Elvis, and she sings the heck out of it, making Presley's "hiccuped" version, pale in comparison.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002OM2?v=glance   (1150 words)

  
 The Big Mama Wellness Project
To Big, Beautiful People (and those who think they are).
The Big Mama is here to help anyone who wants to improve their physical wellbeing and feel good about their bodies and themselves before, during, after or ever losing weight!
Big Business, Government, flawed, over-dramatized Medical Studies and Vanity, Judgement and Rejection of Diversity are the real problems!
www.thebigmama.com   (473 words)

  
 Modesto Area Music Association
So much has happened and ModestoView.com and the MAMA Association have compiled one of the longest histories of local music as we prepare the ultimate 2005 wrap up.
There were some great performances, some big surprises and best of all, it was a night that was shared by all of the radio stations and the Modesto Bee with the bext of the Modesto Area performers.
One of the special moments of the evening is when George Gardner was presented with a Lifetime MAMA award.
www.modestoview.com /mama   (534 words)

  
 Big Mama E and the Cool Homepage
Visit the new Big Mama E online discussion forums.
"Big Mama E and The Cools High Maintenance is an outstanding rock album filled with great songwriting and fine instrumental work.
Big Mama's sound is rock flirting with funk, and lead singer Emma Davis is the engine driving that sound."
www.bigmamae.com   (152 words)

  
 BigMamaThornton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born December 11, 1926 in Montgomery,
that Big Mama was able to meet and listen to many of the great blues artists who
Much in demand, Big Mama Toured coast to coast with several Big RandB shows.
www.geocities.com /theblueslady.geo/BigMamaThornton.html   (298 words)

  
 wrotniak.net: A 600 mm Lens Combo for the Olympus E-10/E-20
This is no big deal: if it doesn't, the picture will be hopelessly out of focus, and if it does, the setting will be tack-sharp in the viewfinder; usually there is no middle ground.
According to the well-known rule of thumb, a safe handheld shutter speed (in seconds) is the reciprocal of the focal length (35-mm equivalent, in millimeters).
This crab on the Ocracoke Island was quite shy — only with the Big Mama was I able to frame a mug shot.
www.wrotniak.net /photo/e10/tcon-300-14b.html   (1310 words)

  
 'Partners' can be financial Big Mama
A lot of what I write and speak about can be attributed to the financial common sense I learned from my grandmother, Big Mama.
As much as I want to help, I can't be a Big Mama to them all.
I know there are a lot of Big Mamas out there.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /money/250667_singletary03.html   (922 words)

  
 The Bigger... The BETTER
BIG MAMA FRESCA
42" Extra Large POLAR TEDDY BEAR
  (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MAMA FRESCA is posable in either the sitting or lying down position, and it takes a lot to wrap your arms around her.
We will have to caution her about not tweaking a real polar bear on its nose, however.
Like our other gift items in the "Bigger is Better" Category, MAMA FRESCA cannot be gift-wrapped, but will arrive tissue-protected within the large shipping carton.
www.giftsplush.com /bigbetmamfre.html   (187 words)

  
 KMC Forums - Big Mama
She is very very skinny and one time a couple months ago she meant to put her hands on her belly and call it "Big Mama." Everybody in the room thought she was pointing to her vagina and calling it Big Mama.
It has become an inside joke with all of my friends that her vagina's name is Big Mama so last night when she was sleeping I decided to write "Big Mama" really big on her back in fl marker.
Of course later we noticed that her bed had "Big Mama" writen backwards on her sheets and she hadn't found out yet last time I talked to her.
www.killermovies.com /forums/f61/t33720.html   (333 words)

  
 Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Big Mama Thornton is one of the greatest Blues shouters of all time.
Her music has influenced the likes of Janis Joplin and Elvis, who would later cover songs originally recorded by Big Mama.
She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1984.
www.arhoolie.com /titles/9043.shtml   (130 words)

  
 BIG MAMA THORNTON
"Big Mama" Thornton, blues singer and songwriter, was born
Big Mama flew from Houston in 1953 back to New York
(1966) and Big Mama Thornton with the Chicago Blues Band (1967).
www.oafb.net /once105.html   (456 words)

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