Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Summer Rental seems like a film Chevy Chase would make. It comes complete with Jack Chester (Candy) as the anxiety ridden father, and his caricature family, all of whom are off to Florida for a month-long stay in a summer beach house. One enters the theater hoping that Candy can pull the stunt off better than Chase ever did, but leaves with the feeling that this movie would have been better with Candy cast as one of the sidekicks...
Sonny Holiday (magic) -- He plans to start performing in Florida very soon. Holiday says the attraction of his show is that there is a beginning, middle...
...another Florida mercy-killing case, the executive clemency board is scheduled to hold a hearing this week for Roswell Gilbert, 75, who received a life sentence in May for shooting to death his wife of 51 years, Emily, 73. Gilbert, a retired electrical engineer, has insisted that his wife, who suffered from Alzheimer's and a painful, degenerative bone disease, wished to die. Said he: "I don't feel like I committed a crime at all. Justice is on my side, but the law is on somebody else...
...growing number of harried borrowers are showing up regularly at credit counselors' doors. "We've got more business than we can respond to," says Andrew McGehee, executive director of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of South Florida. "Obviously, the problem is getting worse." McGehee's nonprofit service advised 2,244 families last year, up 17% from 1983. He expects to surpass that this year. The National Foundation for Consumer Credit, which operates 245 offices around the U.S., said consumers are now arriving for advice in greater numbers than at any time in the past five years...
...months," says Cynthia Barnes, 28, a computer engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in suburban Chicago. "We got three of them in one day last week." The proliferation of plastic astonishes even bankers. Says John Godfrey, senior vice president and chief economist of Jacksonville-based Barnett Banks of Florida: "I'm amazed at the number of mailings I receive at home." He promptly throws them...