Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author excellent story, ably presented by screen-writer Kathleen Knutsen Rowell and director Coppola, sensitively explores the pressures which a tradition of delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows...
...hand-lettered signs jubilant. HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF? read one. RUCKELSHAUS. William Doyle Ruckelshaus, 50, the Environmental Protection Agency's first administrator a decade ago, came home last week to a rousing hero's welcome. "The trust of the public is sacred and must never be broken," he told a crowd of more than 1,000 employees at the agency's Washington headquarters. "It's time we stopped chewing on each other and started pulling together...
Dole failed by ten votes to kill Kasten's rider; Kasten failed by only one vote to end Dole's filibuster. The impasse was broken when Kasten succumbed to the heat from Senate Republican leaders and agreed to withdraw his rider, in return for a promise that he could attach it to trade legislation due to come up for action next month. The Senate then quickly passed the jobs bill; the $5.1 billion appropriation must now be reconciled with the $4.9 billion House version...
...describes in poignant detail the twin tragedies that shattered their European idyl: the death of the Murphys' sons, Baoth in 1935 of a sudden attack of meningitis and Patrick in 1937 after a long fight with tuberculosis, each within months of his 16th birthday. "The golden bowl is broken indeed," Fitzgerald consoled his friends. "But it was golden; nothing can ever take those boys away from...
...Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler can do it singing The Rose; Lena Horne does it torching Stormy Weather one more time. Aznavour does not. Moreover, his show's mood is often broken by inept lighting cues and a sound system that whines when it does not crackle. It all makes one wish one were elsewhere-at home, perhaps, with a close friend, a bottle of Bordeaux and an Aznavour...