"She's the enemy, Mother".
The close observation of their enemies - mother, father, authority figures - teaches these unhappy children how to dissemble or keep silent... and see everything.
By all accounts, Mary Alice Wahlstrom was clearly no one's enemy, a mother of five, little known beyond here.
Even as a student at Stuyvesant, the selective public high school, Max has "an intense awareness of the police as an enemy," his mother said.
This attack led to war with Sparta, and, after Tissaphernes' severe defeat at Sardis in 395, his enemy Parysatis, mother of Cyrus, succeeded in persuading Artaxerxes to have him executed.
What makes eco-horror films — from the 1954 sci-fi classic "Them!" to Steven Soderbergh's 2011 thriller "Contagion" — so terrifying is that the enemy is Mother Nature herself, and she is invariably merciless.
Unlike some of his former M.I.6 colleagues, he has not been declared persona non grata by Putin's regime, but, in 2012, an Orbis informant quoted an F.S.B. agent describing him as "an enemy of Mother Russia".
"We had three good years," Sweetness tells us, "but when she was born, he blamed me and treated Lula Ann like she was a stranger, more than that, an enemy". Her mother, meanwhile, insisted her child call her Sweetness instead of anything maternal.
For all the headline-grabbing stories about security breaches, intoxicated pilots and faulty equipment, sometimes a commercial plane's worst enemy is Mother Nature.
Since 2009 Steele has not been to Russia, or visited any former Soviet states and in 2012, an Orbis informant quoted an FSB-agent describing him as an "enemy of Mother Russia".
