Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have happened in their house, they flee to the capital city and begin to arrange a sale of their gold mine. Eventually they return to the summer house with the pasty-faced, foreign prospective buyers. Despite the sight of their terrified children, they pretend nothing has gone wrong and entertain the foreigners. But soon the thistles go to seed. Some of the family members try to escape, and soon perish, but some survive by huddling close to the ground...
...Toni Rembe, in a home overlooking the bay. He frequently attends and contributes heavily to San Francisco's opera and ballet companies and the city's Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner. Rock suffered from polio as a child, but shows no ill effects from the disease. He exercises for an hour every morning when...
Eleven volumes to instruct, entertain and amuse o book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond." So wrote Oxford Don C.S. Lewis, author of the immortal Chronicles of Narnia. The statement is true enough, but the ability to write a children's book that will last decades is granted to few. Of the hundreds of juvenile volumes published this year, only a handful will endure to New Year's Day. Among those that have a chance of surviving...
...some stiltedness (does Schlesinger actually pontificate so?) and show boating (TV Journalist Hodding Carter, who played a senior adviser, may be too well-trained), but such behavior is not unknown at NSC meetings. In all, The Crisis Game, with its snare-drum theme, was just hokey enough to entertain and good enough to edify...
...Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson, giving a joyously comic display of just the kind of wrong stuff that appalls and attracts her)? Merely thinking over the possibilities he presents takes some comical time. He has been living next door to Aurora for ten years before she hints that she might entertain a luncheon invitation from him. Five years later she actually accepts it. Thereupon a woman who once told an admirer not to worship her unless she deserved it plunges giddily into a relationship with a man she knows suffers that common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. This...