Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days late, in a possibly related incident, her apartment was her daughter suffered a cracked rib, according to the Botts. Shortly thereafter she "left for her native Haiti in a state of mental collapse...
...author, 31, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, breaks no stylistic ground. He blocks out his novel in two broad sections. The first is the third-person narrative of Marge Hogan, farm daughter whose two older brothers are killed in World War II. She spends her working hours in a sea of white feathers and turkey droppings, and her free time at the Cove Café, where a desperate young woman might select the best from a bad lot of rude and scruffy locals...
...Brigadoon. Stoked by the hellfire-and-tarnation sermons of the starchy Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), the locals have outlawed dancing. Enter Ren (Kevin Bacon), a city boy with radical ideas about popular music: he likes it. Will Ren win over the Rev.'s wil lowy daughter (Lori Singer)? Will Ren and his pal Willard (Christopher Penn) beat up the town's five toughest punks in a roadside brawl? Will he be able to put the show on right here? You get plenty of time for your three guesses: 106 minutes, discouragingly few of which surrender themselves...
...film loses itself in so many internal contradictions one is tempted to call it Screwloose. The minister forbids his daughter to listen to rock, but he permits her to wear the clothes of a big-city hooker, a hairdo befitting a glitzy country songstress, 6 lbs. of Maybelline and no bra. The kids in Beaumont have been denied dancing for five years, yet they are as slick as the regulars on Soul Train. Gaffes like these were of little moment in Flashdance; its preposterous story was soft-focused into a modern fable. It matters here, where the young...
...fringe of the New York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin's cathedral of a roller rink, the spectator knows...