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...version. They assert the rights of the sane and normal. "We take pride in her art and her accomplishment," the nieces write. "But we strenuously object to the portrayal of people we knew as libidinous, perverted beasts whose foul treatment of this deeply troubled soul drove her to the anguish she felt...
...Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With a voice that cracks charmingly at the high end, she can take a routine wisecrack ("They're just an unsuspecting, innocent family. Please don't turn into the Welcome Wagon from hell") and make it a cry of adolescent anguish. A TV kid whose jokes are rooted in real feelings and family tribulation. What a concept...
Most senior officials in Washington believe that none of the nearly 2,300 American MIAs still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia are alive. Officials are reluctant to say that publicly because it might make them seem unresponsive to the anguish of families still uncertain about the fate of their loved ones -- and because they just might be wrong. An unreleased 1986 report by Lieut. General Eugene Tighe, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), concluded that some MIAs could be alive...
Nowhere was the anguish and turmoil over B.C.C.I.'s collapse greater than in Britain, where the Bank of England froze more than $400 million of deposits in 120,000 accounts held largely by Indian and Pakistani families and small businesses. The outraged depositors included some 60 municipalities that had placed as much as $160 million of public funds in B.C.C.I. accounts. Customers may have to wait months to receive what is insured under British law: 75% of their money, up to a maximum of (pounds)15,000, or $24,000 at current exchange rates. Shaken B.C.C.I. depositors jammed hastily arranged...
Hangin' with the Homeboys, the engaging new black-Hispanic comedy in which this scene appears, isn't the only place you can catch some provocative episodes of ghetto theater. The pageant of inner-city anger and anguish is playing at a theater near you. Suddenly, it seems, dozens of films by black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just...