Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Christmas Eve, the tree is up and listing at something less than 15 degrees. Not perfect, but acceptable. The kids will sleep until dawn. Insufficient but unavoidable. The pres- ents are wrapped, all but that one saved for last. A favorite. One that should be freshly assembled and brightly functioning when the kids charge into the room in . . . can it be just five hours...
...there is far more than humor in this collection. The Fishermen of the Seine evokes, in a style as spare as Maupassant or Simenon, the ponts and iles of Paris at dawn, when rough-clad men hunker in the fog to hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
...difficulties of remaining value free show up clearly in an 18-minute anti-AIDS videotape prepared for the New York City school system and purchased by groups in 35 states. The narrator is the young movie actress Rae Dawn Chong. She discusses the two riskiest behaviors involved in AIDS, unambiguously advising viewers to avoid intravenous drug use but shying away from a similar warning on anal sex. Instead, she suggests use of condoms for vaginal and anal intercourse and adds offhandedly, "If you decide not to have sex, that...
...sure, whenever the grave and lovely Rae Dawn Chong appears as Sarah, the young black woman Mark falls in love with, this pact is broken. But she cannot overcome the cliches of mistaken-identity comedy that were stylized when Plautus was a pup. Or enliven the film's sermon that even in enlightened environments like Harvard, racial stereotyping and unconscious prejudice still exist. The approach is too comfortable, the tone patronizing. The N.A.A.C.P. has greeted Soul Man with protests; one suspects it is not so much because the movie's heart is in the wrong place, but because its heart...
...pair of shadowy figures slipped into a whaling station north of Reykjavik, Iceland, and set about systematically destroying its computers with sledgehammers and dousing factory records with acid. Before dawn, in Reykjavik harbor, the saboteurs opened the sea cocks of two of the nation's four whaling ships. Little more than half an hour later, the vessels sank...