Word: annes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team never really got started out there tonight," said Lowell head coach Ann Leonard (the older sister of Chrissy). "We looked like scared high school kids...
Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) of In Country, an adaptation of the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason, is a direct, even artless, projection of this healing spirit. There is nothing metaphoric about the empty space left in her life by the war; her father was killed in Viet Nam before she could know him. Her mother having remarried and moved away, Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after...
...Breathed's inflated mind, this must have looked like a good idea. Unfortunately, it looks horrible on paper. A little Black girl from the ghetto, Ronald Ann, is transported into an avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in the last year of "Bloom County," but her character was smothered beneath her role as the Voice of Liberal Consciousness. She was never anything more than an easy way to get a point across. Ronald Ann had none of the subtlety or independence of, say, Oliver Wendell Jones, Breathed's Black...
Evidently, these unsavory vermin are intended to represent fragments of Ronald Ann's ghetto-formed imagination. Get it? Instead of clean, Walt Disney fantasy figures, she conjures up polluted, harsh types--the tarnished ideals that a ghetto child might create...
...only is Breathed recycling the same punchline every week, he apparently intends to depict the same event over and over. The plot of every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern...