Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young man who had been wrongly shot to death on Feb. 4 by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers. His death is only the latest in a series of police brutality cases over the last year, but it serves to remind us all the more of the fine line between enforcing "law and order" and destroying civil liberties...
...although it isn't cable, for Kosberg and his audience-starved troops, it'll do just fine...
...promise made and understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in the war effort. She and the pilot, Peter Gregory, meet and have a brief, rather restrained romance. Then he disappears on a flight to provision a Resistance group...
Gordon's latest work--a fine, well-acted film, by the way--is based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr., a former engineer at NASA who grew up in a small West Virginia coal town in the late '50s hoping to pursue a career in rocketry. This was against the wishes of his father, who in the movie says things like, "Quit wastin' time worryin' about Wernher von Braun," and "By golly, you'd find out [about life in the mines] soon enough...
...parents were fine with my decision because I was still pursuing something--just not something academic," he says...