Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cousins once cruelly terrorized the son of a tenant farmer; as a man he sought revenge with a bomb that accidentally killed the family butler. The servant's illegitimate child, product of a liaison with a Catholic maid, survives him. When the guilt-haunted cousins die without issue, the boy inherits their estate. Throughout his distinguished career, Trevor, 60, has made the symbolic tale his specialty, and now, with a small cast and piercing ironies, the Anglo-Irishman illuminates an entire people afflicted by history. "No matter how it was," Sarah tells an old woman, "it belongs to the past...
...Dukakis, the Wake Forest wordfest may have been the moment he badly needed. Given his limited emotional range and his earnest, smartest-boy-in- the-class presentation, his command of the debate was his strongest performance since the Atlanta Convention. If the exchange, watched by 100 million viewers, does not help him rebound in the polls, his political outlook is cloudy, since he is unlikely to surpass this performance again. For Bush, with a well-orchestrated campaign and far less to lose, it may be enough that he survived without permanent damage. If the Vice President made no new converts...
...head banged the springboard, the Games shook. The world shivered. But a little embroidery work can improve a crown. Louganis came back to win the springboard, making a pedestal of the platform. As unafraid as ever of sentimentality, he was also as slyly pleased with his tonsure as a boy might be with a shiner...
Click. A youth is lured into a mortuary by the attendant, who locks him up with the corpses. One of them is a beautiful young woman. The boy lifts the sheet from her body. As he gazes upon her she seems to come alive. Terrified, he races for the door, now open. She is the first of the demons that will haunt his reveries and his work for the rest of his life...
...even the serious exhibitions provide the tang of astonishment. A display of 58 machines -- from the 1835 thaumatrope to tomorrow's Sony GV-8 Video Walkman -- pulses with the gimcrack genius of those anonymous technicians who gave artists the tools to dream with. The spirit of Philo T. Farnsworth, boy pioneer of TV, rides again...