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...moved on in search of the “American dream.” I married in 1957, and my first child was born in 1959 in Mineola, New York. My mother in the meantime remained a Portuguese citizen. She could not understand why she had to be the missing link in a family that had now given a new citizen to America and where everyone within it was also American...
...mother died as an American citizen on Dec. 17, 1996, in Bridgeton, Missouri. Prior to her death, she asked me to contact Vellucci for help just in case her nursing-home money ran out before she died...
...there is no evidence, at least not yet, of a terrorist plot. And Ford, in particular, doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist. A Muslim convert and son of a Black Panther leader, he has long held strident political views. But he is also something of a model citizen. As a student, he once penned a note thanking a professor for a well-taught course. As an adult, he volunteered to teach arts and crafts to children in a Muslim community center in Portland. Tall and athletic, Ford is consistently described as calm and gentle and is admired...
That means he is a perfect citizen of what we might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...suit against the institutions originated through the False Claims Act, which allows a private citizen to bring suit on behalf of the U.S. government and share in any recovery the government wins...