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This set-up is much to the chagrin of his wife Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...
...despite relative relaxing of restrictions, the Chinese are not free to move about as they please. The job assignment program is still intact, much to the chagrin of many, including the students. The Chinese are still sent to the countryside to work, where the average salary is about $400. And prisoners are paraded around stadiums before their executions...
...EATING lunch the other day when a student armed with a sheaf of papers approached me. In a low and serious voice he asked, "Have you signed the divestment petition yet?" I said--with unnecessary harshness, I'm afraid--that no, I hadn't. With obvious chagrin he moved on to the other students at the long table...
...chagrin of ex-Presidents-for-Life Baby Doc Duvalier and Ferdinand Marcos, the U.S. is back in the business. And judging from the favorable reaction of liberals and conservatives alike to the American role in Haiti and the Philippines, that business -- intervention -- has once again become respectable...
...applied to Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will...