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There is, however, one family member who breaks out of this stagnant framework of relationships. 15-year-old Ellen (Mary Kate Schellhardt), with her blue eyeliner and frosted pink lipstick, is enjoying the process of growing up, and is often intolerant of the rest of the Grapes. Ellen's favorite object of criticism is Gilbert. Although Gilbert's face betrays the strain of keeping his family afloat, Ellen still haunts him daily with the words, "You gotta do better." And when Gilbert makes mistakes, or acts a little selfish, the whole town seems to echo her. He is even invited...
...question now is whether politicians can devise a framework that will satisfy the conflicting loyalties in the minority Catholic and majority Protestant communities. The British have said they will not stand in the way of a united Ireland should the majority of the people in the north one day agree to a shift in sovereignty. Dublin has pledged that it will respect the desires of the Protestant majority in the north to maintain its links with the United Kingdom as long as the aspiration for ultimate Irish unity is recognized. The devil will be in the details, and those have...
...Angeles responded so strongly because what I said was consistent with their lives. What they want is some order, some discipline, some basic sanity and balance in their lives. And they know that the government can't give them all that but that we have to provide a framework and do what we can. And then they're going to have to do something...
These children have a strong framework of morals and a clear perception of what is right and what is wrong. And while children who commit "carbon copy" crimes aren't necessarily immoral, they aren't easily able to see the distinction between television and reality...
...doorstop best sellers go, Herman Wouk's melodramas The Winds of War and War and Remembrance were tolerable entertainment. The historical framework of World War II was well enough known that the author could focus on the adventures of his solid-oak characters without having to teach history. That's not true of The Hope (Little, Brown; 693 pages; $24.95), Wouk's earnest novel about Israel's first two decades, beginning with the fight for independence in 1948 and carrying through...