Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatically different amounts and parts of their father's empire, parts that fit their sharply divergent personalities and amounts that apparently reflected the feelings between father and sons. The cultured and mild-mannered Seiji, the son of Yasujiro's wife Misao, has established himself as a novelist and an award-winning poet whose early literary work sometimes suggested filial embarrassment and even enmity...
...Easy in the Islands (1985), Bob Shacochis proved he could spin colorful tales about life, chiefly low, in the Caribbean. His exotic settings and laid- back prose won critical praise and an American Book Award for a first book of fiction. He might be excused for trying to repeat his earlier success, but that turns out not to be necessary. Only two of the eight stories in The Next New World take place on tropical islands, and while perfectly fine, they are not the best things in this collection. A typical Shacochis story is still likely to have a large...
...murderers of Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, has arrived with critical trumpets leading the way and bitter controversy in its wake. It has already won National Board of Review citations for best picture, best actor (Gene Hackman) and best supporting actress (Frances McDormand) -- prizes the film may duplicate on Academy Award night. For Mississippi Burning is made to Oscar's order: a white-heat yarn that illuminates, with fiery rhetoric at a lightning pace, one crucial chapter in American history...
...Michael Jeffrey Jordan is high enough, thank you. As he enters his fifth year in the National Basketball Association, he is the hottest player in America's hottest sport. Only 25, Jordan has already won every major individual award the NBA has to offer. He was Rookie of the Year after his first season. After his third, he became the first player not named Wilt to break the 3,000-point barrier. Last season he captured an unprecedented triple crown of NBA honors: Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year and top scorer to boot. This season, averaging more...
...uncut. And in fact the consequences of that particular adultery were illness and death and great misery. So it could hardly be held up as an invitation to promiscuity." In the end, Detective earned robust ratings and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts best actor award for Michael Gambon, who plays the writer...