Word: boarders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When not at the zoo, we return to the boarding house in which Snow lives to watch a variety of odd and lonely people attempt to interact with each other. Tension in these scenes centers on Snow's impatience with a fellow boarder who fails to clean the various messes he leaves around the house. Eventually, the well-mannered Snow succumbs to an urge to punch the boarder, though Snow lands on his back...
...during the period that Ford was occasionally Gould's boarder, the elder swimmer won three gold medals, a silver, and a bronze at the Munich Olympics...
...Nelligan manages to redeem herself with bombast, Malkovich as her less-than-saintly son is an utter bombastic disappointment. Where Malkovitch was superb in earlier off-beat roles as the photographer in The Killing Fields and the blind boarder in Places in the Heart, his portrayal of Gage is shamefully one-sided and wholly unappealing. Brooding both in his personal and professional lives, he would seem an unlikely candidate for the type of altruistic soul-searching chronicled in the book and the film. Even his rigorous investigative reporting, which includes pulling a gun on his mother's executioner, would seem...
Several years ago, Mrs. Volcker, who has been ill, went to work as a clerk to add to the family's income. The Volckers also took in a boarder to help make ends meet...
Longfellow first began living in the Georgian-style home in 1837 as a boarder but later bought the home. He lived there for the last 45 years of his life...