Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shorn of its outward trappings, the adventure might have been woven a thousand years ago under the caliphate of Baghdad: back-corridors palace intrigue; the mysterious wounding at a festival; a headlong flight across the desert by the ruler's beloved daughters and his sons-in-law, one of them...
The questing, tormented main character is Julia, a successful architect, divorced and, at 41, pregnant for the first time, by a casual lover. Her marriage broke up some years before because she refused to have children, fearing that a streak of brutality might surface in her own nature. Her mother...
This movie (written by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller and Harvey Weitzman) is slicker and neater than director Alfonso Arau's widely beloved Like Water for Chocolate, but the calculated naivete of its fabulism can be just as irritating. Yet if you're willing to be wowed, there's also...
Lodge rescues his story by taking a daring chance. Recalling a teenage romance with a pure Irish Catholic girl named Maureen, Tubby resolves to track her down. He finds her struggling along the pilgrimage road toward the famous Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela. In the 40 intervening years, she...
I DON'T WANT TO PREJUDGE POWELL AS a presidential candidate, but we should learn from our past experience. The U.S. suffered under Ulysses S. Grant, and stood still for eight years under Dwight Eisenhower. Military duty in command positions is not the appropriate training for political office. Politics is...