Word: bookworm
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EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...
...sweet it is to have just one such moment in life. How bitter to have it early, and then be forced to rerun it ad nauseam, until the triumph turns into sitcom. Bitter for Gavin, for the luminous Babs, for their bookworm nephew Donnie (Timothy Hutton) and their lumbering pal Lawrence (John Goodman). The story meanders through 25 years of the changing South -- civil rights, women's rights, the capricious kingdom of celebrity -- and ends in 1981, but its moral should catch in many a yuppie throat. The price of pursuing eternal youth is catching it, like a cold...
Every so often you hear about a child tycoon--the Girl Scout who sells tens of thousands of dollars of cookies, the bookworm who organizes and finances a lending library. All across the county, parents point out to children the moral of the tale...
...wing vacation for two. And end to slim pickins' for Frankie McLaughlin, Says here, he'll soon have the whole Ivies talkin'. It's Pat Ewing's opponents that'll need Christmas gifts, Enough for Bob Klitgaard, if he can heal all rifts. A solar-powered Yuletide for our bookworm Paul Tsongas Ted Kennedy gets a win margin humongous. For S. Allen Counter a foundation most firm, But for Israel's Begin an end to his term; An heir or an heiress will greet Charles and Di; We know Larry Bird will continue to fly. Graduate wishes to Vorenberg...