Word: finished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most noticeable of the leathery wagoners is Dave Bald Eagle, 70, a Northern Cheyenne and rancher who has clopped along with the 32-vehicle western train for 40 days. Bald Eagle, who intends to see the train out to the finish, dons his ceremonial regalia when the wagons enter some small towns. He dismisses the irony of a Native American traveling in a nostalgic procession of white folk, who were once fearful of Indian attack. "It's my way of letting the Indian people know it's best to cope with the modern world, to get busy, to do something...
...plot derives from a rather cruel bet: two young men agree to adopt disguises and try to seduce each other's fiancees. Alas, it proves all too easy, but after a reasonable amount of tears and outcries, everyone is reconciled at the end. Not in Sellars' version. Here they finish in an angry brawl, and according to Sellars, "the opera ends as they scream the words 'beautiful calm' against gale-force turbulence in the orchestra...
...When they finish with this program they really have an understanding of what it is to be an architect," says Hope Cohn, the GSD's staff coordinator for Career Discovery...
...that matter, who has been more insistent that parents should "interfere" in what their children are doing, Tipper Gore or Jesse Jackson? All through the 1970s, Jackson was traveling the high schools, telling parents to turn off TVs, make the kids finish their homework, check with teachers on their performance, get to know what the children are doing. This kind of "interference" used to be called education...
...Sally, the movie is hardworking, spot on; it winepresses its conversation into epigrams. No surprise here. Reiner found wayward comedy in such genres as the rock documentary (This Is Spinal Tap) and the historical romance (The Princess Bride). Crystal, the improv master who is Reiner's closest friend -- "We finish each other's sentences," Crystal says, "and he finishes my lunch" -- meets the challenge of making a compulsive Lothario not just likable but impishly seductive. And Ephron, a helpful Heloise of emotional heartburn, perks the script with clever answers to modern problems. How long should a man hold a woman...