Word: debra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to social worker Debra Gleason, untilrecently customers from Kelly's Roast Beef, whichis directly across the street, would bring theirmeals to picnic benches right in front of thenursing home. Occasionally these diners would stayafter finishing their meals and talk to theresidents for a while...
...Offspring, struggling to establish separate identities, can wind up with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles. And aging parents, who should be enjoying some financial and personal freedom, find themselves bogged down with responsibilities. Says Debra Umberson, a researcher at the University of Michigan: "Living with children of any age involves compromise and obligation, factors that can be detrimental to some aspects of well-being. All children, even adult children, require accommodation and create stress...
What is this delicate musk that Catharine radiates? Perhaps the scent of fulfillment through risk. And why does it attract Alex Barnes (Debra Winger), a deskbound fed who determines to track Catharine down? The guys at the office, with their C.P.A. faces and helpful hands, share a big-brotherly lech for the hardest-working gal in law biz. But Alex has no emotional life, no obsession but her work. When she discovers that Catharine has the same fixation -- except that her work is murder for profit -- Alex finds a freer, more dangerous part of herself. Could she become...
...also dabbled in politics, prizefighting and performing. "Here I'm trying to make a professional, conventional film on its own terms." The movie boasts a $5 million budget and a cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
...well-to-do by creating one upper-class family instead of two middle-class ones. Says Harvard's Bloom: "A pairing-off based on economics is occurring. Higher-income men and higher-income women are tending to find each other." Manhattanites Anthony Chase, 31, and his wife Debra, 30, who are both from solidly middle-class backgrounds, are likely to exceed by far the financial dreams of their parents. The Chases started dating at Harvard, where Debra earned a law degree and Anthony picked up a combined law degree and M.B.A. Married five years, they have a joint income...