Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State on matters of international law. To some observers, Sofaer has done no more than would be expected of an attorney serving his client -- even if that client is a policymaking arm of the U.S. Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses to get caught in a law-vs.-policy dogfight. He cites Lyricist Sammy Cahn's dictum that it is impossible to say "what comes first, the music or the words...
...about 100 species of birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter House Bed and Breakfast, thinks the tourists ought to include the Soviets, just a couple of hours away across the Bering Sea. "They'd be real good customers," she says, clearly thinking more of her occupancy rate than of the Drums' circulation. A sobering counterpoint to these schemes, however, is the rise in suicides...
...know what I hate?" I asked. "Harvard forces you to eat breakfast. I mean, the way Harvard charges us, I could probably save my dad nearly 75 bucks a year by skipping break fast. What's worse," I added, "you can't even get steak on seconds...
...then he proceeded to "read my mind." First he told me what type of mood I was in, and what he thought was bothering me. Though he never went into such detail as being able to tell me the names of important people or what I'd eaten for breakfast, I cannot deny that he was very perceptive...
That, of course, is where fantasy slyly enters Hughes' movies. In real life, questioning the adolescent social structure usually ends in baffled hurt, not instructive triumph. When Hughes' characters and situations are intensely enough drawn (as in The Breakfast Club), one scarcely notices such manipulation. But Some Kind of Wonderful has not attained its full growth. Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness...