Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This sweet, slightly strained film finds knowing laughs in all the frustrations of modern romance. The couple must proclaim themselves free of herpes and AIDS before easing into bed, she with her diaphragm, he with his condom (or is it hers?). They both know that in an age of erotic malaise, the mating dance is often an audition for a show that gets rotten reviews and closes on opening night. As O'Toole sighs, when her sister tells her to have fun, "Dating...
...seen the film.) Start with a Manhattan marriage, radiant in its yup-scale domesticity. Beth (Anne Archer) gets dressed for a party -- sexy. Dan walks the dog -- cute. Daughter Ellen (Ellen Hamilton Latzen) crawls into bed with Mom -- poignant. To an outsider, their life must look like a New Age greeting card...
...family photos, where the other kids often are gazing into left field while Glennie is right up front, beaming an eager smile smack through the back of the camera. Precocious and poised, she proclaimed she was going to be an actress -- a career compromise reached only reluctantly at age five when she accepted that she could not grow up to be a quarter horse. Today she weeps with laughter as she recalls galloping on hands and knees, shouting defiantly to parents, "I'm still going to be a horse even after my breasts...
...passage, John Stennis, 86, has announced his retirement after 40 years in the Senate. And Ross Barnett, the segregationist Governor who only under the guns of federal troops in 1962 admitted James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, died last week at the age...
More than ever in the age of Ronald Reagan, television smarts are required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation...