Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be hearing a lot about Barton Fink in the next few weeks. Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through...
Damage is the story of one man's obsession that eventually destroys his family and his life. The main character, who remains unnamed, is a respectable English doctor and politician, ostensibly a good father and husband. His bourgeois bliss comes to an abrupt end when Anna Barton, the fiancee of his son Martyn, enters our hero's life...
...comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...
...Record: Princeton guard Sean Jackson established a new Ivy League record for three-pointers made in a season last week. Jackson eclipsed the previous high, 51, set by Dartmouth's Jim Barton in the 1987-88 season, with his first three-pointer of the second half in the Tigers's 79-64 defeat over Harvard last Friday...
While Japanese investment in foreign properties has slowed dramatically, the country's affinity remains high for golf courses and other resorts. "They think we're the best in the world in golf communities," says Landmark's chairman, Gerald Barton, who will run the properties...