Lichtenstein met Rodinsky's cousin, Ethel, who spoke of his unbalanced mother, his early years in a foster home, his unhappiness prior to his disappearance.
This prompted her unbalanced mother, the "Lunch Lady", to kill every child at Cassie's school that had somehow hurt or insulted Cassie and serve them as the school food.
He was a cradle Episcopalian, and grew up in Bordentown, New Jersey, in a household that was subject to the random terrors of an emotionally unbalanced mother.
The daughter of an intellectual father and a mentally unbalanced mother, Laila loves a neighbor boy who has lost a leg to a land mine.
There is a grisly, demented rationality in her irrationality, this overwhelmed, unbalanced mother who will now spend virtually the rest of her life in prison.
The film is about an unbalanced mother (Nathalie Baye) bullying her 12-year-old son Julien (Victor Sevaux).
Norman tells her he lives with his powerful, unbalanced mother.
Her unbalanced mother, abandoned by the glamorous ne'er-do-well husband who fathered Isadora and her three siblings, prepared Duncan early for sexual independence.
There is lots of talk about Henry's possessive, unbalanced mother and his eagerness to distance himself from his family.
In its depiction of a young man's struggle to remain the glue in the troubled marriage of his vacant, trumpet-playing father and unbalanced, alcoholic mother, this lovely play has an abiding power.