Word: chris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other regional differences in manners are still evident. Sections of the South remain citadels of high courtliness.* But the old standards are besieged. A team of animal behaviorists could keep themselves fascinated for months merely observing the door-opening customs of the sexes in the South. Chris Kirby, a courthouse librarian in Orlando, hauls weighty law books all day long; not once during working hours, she complains, has a man ever opened a door for her, much less offered to cart the books. "But let me go out at night with nothing heavier than an evening bag," she goes...
...took Ralph Bakshi, Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle (a Tolkien biographer) to show me what people who don't like Tolkien see when they read his books: A world of ludicrous little people, pedantic wizards and interminable sword and sorcery cliches. Conkling and Beagle have a great burden to bear for their treacherous adaptation of Tolkien's story, but the truly responsible party is Bakshi...
...life was for Christina, it was worse for Chris. To smother his boyish spirits, Joan bought a "sleep safe," a harness-like gadget used to keep babies from rolling out of bed. Joan, however, had it modified for a growing boy and strapped Chris into bed every night until he was twelve. If he needed to go to the toilet, he had to call Joan, who was often not around, or persuade Christina to disobey orders and release...
Throughout the book Christina maintains that she loved her mother, but it is a kind of love that sounds very much like hate. Chris, who is a $200-a-week electrical lineman on Long Island, knows exactly how he feels. "I hated the bitch," a Newsday reporter quotes him as saying. "I honestly to this day do not believe that she ever cared for me." He may very well be right; Joan disinherited both of her older children, leaving them out of an estate estimated at about $2 million. Chris and Christina are now challenging the will in court, claiming...
Screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle...