Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the story returns to the present, the disinterred body of the dead despot repeatedly turns up in a garden. The grave robber is discovered to be the daughter of the woman with the missing husband. At her subsequent trial, the daughter argues that the actions of the past must not be buried, and is threatened with incarceration in a mental hospital -- a not uncommon fate of Soviet dissidents. The film ends with the woman's awakening to find it was all a dream. Repentance is exceptional because it is the first Soviet film to deal with Beria...
...were going to be in some fancy hotel, but I thought it would be nice for her to be with the other kids at Eliot House," says Evelyn Krammer, whose daughter Jessica, age nine, will be skating in tonight's show...
...characters of mother and daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
...mother and daughter are flat characters partly because they are not given voices. The Enchanter lacks the squabbles and banter which pepper the pages of Lolita. While the child in The Enchanter remains for the most part mute, Lolita utters vulgar taunts and slangy witticisms. She knows that she is a "bad, bad girl. Juvenile delickwent, but frank and fetching...
Sometimes in country music, it seems as if every other person who can carry a tune has got some Cash connection. There's Johnny, naturally, and his wife June Carter, and her late mother Maybelle, and his daughter Rosanne. Now, as fans of the Miss America contest know, there is his grandniece Kellye Cash. Her singing selections in the talent competition ran more to pop and the blues, but the 1987 Miss America would hardly deny her kinship for country crooning. During a homecoming celebration in Jackson, Tenn., Kellye, 21, got onstage for the first time with Great-Uncle Johnny...