A saccharine smell hangs in the air.A monumental mammy sphinx hardly sounds nuanced.
And in Bombo he introduced "My Mammy".
Certain occupational forms emerged, according to need, such as the milking stool, the cobbler's bench, and the rocking bench, or "mammy settle".
Don't congratulate Jared Leto's transgender Mammy.
Everyone in the house would vote for Joe, from mammy and daddy to the kids.
He featured in one of Philip Mackie's elegant literary adaptations, Maupassant (1963), and did two turns on Z Cars in its early years, before a light comedy play in the First Night series, "My One True Love BBCBC, 1964), casting him as a successful businessman still ruled by his mother and tempted by his secretary (Yootha Joyce), turned out to be the pilot for Me Mammy.
With his parents safely dead, it was safe to imagine that they were not, and so he imagined descending the stairs, strolling in on not just Pell and Nick but the folks — the daddy unwizened, the mammy unwigged — seated at the kitchen table, grinning and abashed after their long and flagrant absence.
The mammy doll was there in the immemorial tradition of the black servant, an intended touch of exoticism.
Sometimes the tics of street view have wacky consequences — taking a tour of "A Subtlety," Kara Walker's recent installation, at the old Williamsburg Domino sugar factory, featuring a sphinxlike mammy figure coated in white sugar, I found myself unwittingly perched on the sculpture's breasts — but that wackiness is exactly the joy of these virtual tours.
She's not quite sure about that redolent spoonful, and she doesn't have a clue to its possible ingredients, which include poverty, garbage, jazz, sex, slavery, and dancing crab demons, all breathed into existence by a slumberous earth mammy.
Wilson — Southern born and white — was also subverting the stereotype of the black woman as a domestic Mammy: dressed in a nineteenth-century-style floor-length black dress and sporting an Afro, Sutton's character murdered her own children.
