Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, the Thanksgiving dinner Nola sets up to introduce all the rivals on the theory that "you were all going to meet one day..." Of course, the results are disastrous and Nola should know better than to have expected civility on such an occasion. Still, Lee can be forgiven almost any such questionable twists of plot because of the wickedly clever insults that fly as the men vie for Nola's attention...
...triggers a rush of memories in the mother, including the one that begins the story. As a child, she hated the adults who could not protect another child from death; now, thinking of her own daughters and a narrow escape, she hopes that she and her husband will "be forgiven, in time, for everything that had first to be seen and condemned by those children: whatever was flippant, arbitrary, careless, callous -- all our natural, and particular, mistakes...
...some 20,000 boats of every conceivable shape and size. Their wild variety mirrored the diversity of the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island: Dutch flat- bottomed boats, Chinese junks, plush French yachts, Norwegian barkentines. Draped over one small vessel was a hand-lettered banner: OK U.K. 1776 IS FORGIVEN. COME HOME COLONIALS. TEA AND CRUMPETS AWAIT...
...Socialist, are expected to place their support behind Steyrer, while those in the camp of Otto Scrinzi, a former SS officer, seem more likely to vote conservative. Ultimately, however, the issue may come down to a contest between those who believe that Waldheim's secret past will be universally forgiven and those...
...spring, however, is not without hope. The most promising seedling on the midseason schedule is NBC's All Is Forgiven, created by Glen and Les Charles and James Burrows, the team responsible for Cheers. Last week's initial segment, though jam-packed with jokes and characters, sweated less than most sitcom pilots. Bess Armstrong stars as Paula, a career woman who gets married and stumbles into a job as producer of a TV soap opera on the same day. The series will apparently shuttle between conflicts at home (her husband Matt has a punkish daughter who resents...