Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nick Nolte plays a burned-out social studies teacher. He looks like he has been taking eating lessons from Gerard Depardeau, and talks like a graduate from the Wolfman Jack College of Elocution, altogether appearing more fit to push a broom than a pencil. Nolte is supposedly the best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams...
...major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent, which cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos are often first broached on soap operas. In October, for example, the creators of All My Children arranged the maiden, if not maidenly, appearance of a continuing lesbian character...
...field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish...
Ferris dispelled any traces of ambition with his final remark. "Look for me among the crowd of doctors and lawyers. I'll be the one pushing the broom...
...Environmental Protection Agency. First, EPA Administrator Anne Burford showed up in Missouri with a dramatic offer to buy out the homes and property of residents of the dioxin-poisoned town of Times Beach. Then, after Burford left for speaking engagements in California and Arizona, the Administration put the broom to the EPA, sweeping out of office two top officials who were under investigation and appointing five top deputies. Democratic congressional leaders dubbed it the "Wednesday-night massacre." The White House called it "a fresh start...