Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite enjoyable. Cynthia Gibb (who lip-syncs Karen's syrupy hits like Close to You) and Mitchell Anderson are convincing as the sister-brother act. Director Joseph Sargent traces their rise to fame in brisk if superficial strokes. The film (which lists Richard Carpenter as executive producer) is blunt about the troubles the young stars faced: overprotective, underaffectionate parents (Louise Fletcher, Peter Michael Goetz), Richard's drug problems, Karen's growing obsession with losing weight. The scrubbed duo make drug abuse look positively wholesome, but the movie deftly grafts the morbid thrills of a disease-of-the-week drama onto...
...Chief Justice sentenced Akeem to be maimed with a blunt kitchen instrument, the limb to be named later...
...When you think about it, all this pre-menstrual screaming and yelling is reminiscent of nothing so much as the whining and complaining that we used to associate with funky female folkies. Methinks that the band doth protesteth too much, and this lack of subtlety, this blunt polemicism, can cut an album but it can't cut an attitude...
Rome's ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last...
...course of true love takes some strange turns in Roseanne, ABC's new hit sitcom starring comedian Roseanne Barr. This blunt-spoken family may not win any awards for Wonder-bread wholesomeness, but not since The Cosby Show has a TV clan achieved such instant rapport with the American public. Since its debut in mid-October, the show has consistently finished in the Nielsen Top Ten, one week even landing in the heady No. 2 spot, behind only the indestructible...