Word: debra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome...
...larger, more popular student organizations involved in the protest, nor the unaffiliated students who formed the largest part of the protesters. We hope that not only the signers of this letter, but also a diverse range of campus opinion will condemn this blatant selective victimization. Debra M. Satz teaching asst., Social Studies Joseph Schwartz, teaching fellow, Government and Social Studies Carlos Forment, teaching fellow, Social Studies David K. Brian, graduate student, Socialogy David L. Evans, Senior Admissions officer
Terms of Endearment. Morals, mortality, even a mid-life crisis or two are all subjects for James L. Brooks' rich, sweet, sad comedy. Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger strike sparks and smiles as the middle-American mother and daughter...
...story ends, some three decades later, with the same mother and daughter (played from adolescence onward by Debra Winger) confronting the same issue, the possibility of the younger woman's premature death, this time a very realistic one, in a cancer ward. From this sequence it is clear that Terms of Endearment is a serious film that is trying to say something important about how people can triumph over the worst kinds of adversity...
Participants in the rally said they thought it was an effective way to express their disapproval. "Harvard needs energy--it's important to get together and do something," said Debra M. Kochman...