Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sixteenth century. Locked in the Tower of London is Colonel Fairfax (Garland Withers), condemned to death as a result of a jealous relative's evil machinations. Everyone loves Fairfax, particularly Sergeant Meryll (Douglas Freeman) of the Tower yeomen and Meryll's daughter Phoebe (Lisa Zeidenberg). Maneuvering on their own, they seek to free the condemned man--Meryll in appreciation of Fairfax's past heroism, Phoebe in anticipation of the captive's predicted amours...
...Harrison's direction is fine when it captures the languid rhythm of everyday preoccupations and lets its attractive actors (especially Hallie Foote, the author's daughter) breathe quietly through the lace curtains of memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...
...passengers had been sucked out of the 9-ft. by 4-ft. hole blown in the fuselage near the right wing in the moments after the explosion. On the ground, a shepherd near Argos found the bodies of three Greek Americans, all from Annapolis, Md.: Demetra Stylianopoulou, 58, her daughter Maria Klug, 25, and her eight-month-old granddaughter Demetra. A fourth body, that of Colombian-born Alberto Ospino, 39, of Stratford, Conn., was later found in a nearby field, along with the window seat in which he had been sitting...
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, first made headlines in 1967 when, during a trip to India, she defected to the West. In 1984 she was back in the news when she unexpectedly returned to the Soviet Union with her American-born daughter Olga. Once in Moscow, Svetlana bitterly charged that in the West she had been "not free for one single...
...British diplomats in both London and Moscow announced that Olga, 15, has been given a British visa, and will return to Britain before the end of the month to re-enroll in a Quaker school that she formerly attended. There were no indications that Svetlana would follow her daughter...