Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accountant at the Simcox brewery, trained to replicate his father's footsteps, Leslie senses the postwar crumbling of old barricades and makes his moves. He joins the local Young Conservatives, never minding that most of his colleagues despise him. He courts and wins Charlotte Fanner, the awkward and unhappy daughter of the village's titled landowner. He grows rich through investments and gains political power, but he does not win the respect of those who know him best. As Dorothy Simcox preaches to her husband, "Perhaps God made people like Leslie Titmuss so we can find out who's nice...
This is a juicy subject for the nation's best-known conservative writer. With considerable relish and fluent wit, Buckley stirs a plot involving the treasonous activities of Britain's leading scientist and the Soviet-bred daughter of an American journalist. The amiable Oakes frequently gets lost in the flashbacks and Kremlinology, but that is to be expected. Buckley's bad guys always get more attention than his good guys...
...characters, sweated less than most sitcom pilots. Bess Armstrong stars as Paula, a career woman who gets married and stumbles into a job as producer of a TV soap opera on the same day. The series will apparently shuttle between conflicts at home (her husband Matt has a punkish daughter who resents her) and at work, where the gallery of nuts ranges from a brash receptionist to an effusive, Southern-fried head writer, played attractively by Carol Kane...
...Crisis books and in The Moral Life of Children. Once again, Coles gets very little out of an extraordinary child who smiled serenely at those who spat on her and prayed each night for her tormentors. His principal reaction is bewildered admiration. A Mississippi black woman tells her daughter that people of every hue are a mixture of good and bad, and the good fights the bad in politics all the time. Coles is again deeply impressed: "Such a moral and theological analysis of political life is worthy of Reinhold Niebuhr...
...Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a bleach-blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple...