Word: caine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picking Manhattan mostly for aesthetic reasons. "They've been doing really well," she says of the 2-2 Jaspers and warns that Harvard should watch out for senior Tim Cain...
...Chris Cain's The Stone Boy, a touching--if somewhat contrived view of a small town Montana family struck by tragedy--is unmistakably an ideological throwback to Ordinary People. Both films present pictures of ostensibly cohesive, happy families; both revolve around the same tragic insident--the accidental death of an older son--and in the process both depict fairly typical people in the throes of crisis...
Meanwhile, the government of Amin Gemayel announced last week that "new difficulties" had prevented Lebanon's multitudinous factions from agreeing on a time and place for their national reconciliation meeting. "New" difficulties? The problems seemed as new as Cain and Abel. If Lebanon's warring sects are given a chance to disagree, they will. This time, Suleiman Franjieh, a former President (1970-76) and one of the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, announced that he would not attend any conference held in Lebanon, while Camille Chamoun, head of the right-wing Christian Lebanese Front, declared...
...Party called for an official inquiry into the Begin government's handling of the war. It was joined, ironically, by former Defense Minister (and now Minister Without Portfolio) Ariel Sharon, who is said to have told the Cabinet, "I'm not prepared to wear the mark of Cain or have people wave 'murderer' placards at me. I'm not prepared to take all the blame." The Knesset voted against setting up another commission of inquiry, but the protests continued...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...