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...held on her decks as she lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay, 338-piece silver set was returned to the citizens of Missouri, who had generously donated the finery. With the Missouri returning to action, the Navy wanted the silver back. Problem was, Missouri Governor John Ashcroft wanted to hang on to the ship's engraved punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital in Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers...
...state a narrow conclusion, its decision generated apocalyptic pronouncements of approval and criticism. The ruling, cheered Ira Millstein of the American Jewish Congress, gives "no aid or succor to anyone who wants prayer in the public schools." Agreeing with that analysis but not the result, Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri, a born-again Christian, denounced the court for its "phobic response to the six-letter word prayer." Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich, recalling earlier obscenity cases, objected, "It means the f-word is protected, but you still can't think God." Cried Michigan State Representative Ethel Terrell: "What has happened...
...three farm movies (Country, The River and Places in the Heart) was almost certain to be named Best Actress. And one of them was: Sally Field, for her role as the struggling widow in Places in the Heart. Best Supporting Actress went to the almost inevitable choice, Peggy Ashcroft, a wonderful English stage star who has infrequently been seen on film, for her performance as Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India. The night's few authentic moments included Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who survived torture in Cambodia to appear in The Killing Fields, and thanked "God, Buddha" for winning...
This disorienting sense of smallness ultimately terrifies young Adela (Judy Davis) Adela has come to the city of Chandrapore with Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), the mother of Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), who holds the post of city magistrate under the British...
...himself with Aziz's defense, Godbole's comment is merely "You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same." The other is Mrs. Moore, Adela's traveling companion, almost comically regal at some moments, uncannily vulnerable in others, but always touched by mystery as Peggy Ashcroft delicately plays her. Mrs. Moore enters only one cave, then reels out of it, having confronted her own mortality. Later, when people try to draw her back into the muddle to testify at Aziz's trial, she escapes by booking passage home: "Love in a church, love in a cave...