Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXPECTING. Farrah Fawcett, 37, buoyant, blond-tressed actress who in recent years has essayed taxing TV roles (Murder in Texas, this week's The Burning Bed) to overcome the memory of her most famous part as one of the original Charlie's Angels; and Ryan O'Neal, 43, brawny, boisterous actor (Love Story, Paper Moon), her steady companion for the past four years; their first child; in February...
...addition, questions remain about the claim the present concept of an "empty bed." Technically there should be in students for a rooms, but this has different implications in different Houses. A common room in Adams House, for example, may be used as a bedroom or a living room system makes. For example, one issues raised at Thursday's meeting included the, but ved because there is not enough space in the bedrooms for more than one person. in Mather House beds were placed in common rooms this year which could not be mo So there is validity to the claim...
...film keeps feeding these false expectations. We witness a typical mad Monday at JFK: a kid nearly bleeds to death as he waits for the nurse, a school psychologist flips out, and most of the teachers are in absentia. Nolte, the model teacher, is too busy in bed to be in class, and a lingering topless view of his bedmate puts Teachers on its way to a well-deserved R rating...
...Burning Bed does not hide its sympathies; this is Francine's story all the way. But the human complexities are fully recognized. Between his violent rages, Mickey is sincerely repentant, even charming as he whines for one more chance. Significantly, he never beats the children. And the various relatives and authorities to whom Francine turns in vain for help are not evil or callous, just ineffectual...
...inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown to frightening stature. The Burning Bed makes its case, and a lot more. It is an eloquent and gripping drama, and the best TV movie of the year. -By Richard Zoglin