Word: franked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Angela's Ashes, may have wondered from whence the title of the book came. Upon seeing the film, it becomes clear that the title refers to the ashes that grow on the end of the cigarettes that Angela, McCourt's mother, smokes continuously as she worries her way through poverty, saddled with several children and an alcoholic husband who can't seem to hold...
...film runs glumly along, episode after episode, with no plot whatsoever. Frank's siblings die at the rate of about one every ten minutes, but the only emotion these deaths manage to evoke is indifference. Along the way the film manages to completely squander Emily Watson as Angela. She makes a valiant effort to portray Angela as a tough woman who's not too proud to beg for her children, but wasted are her sharp, delicate eyes and wonderfully expressive mouth. In fact, the occasional, accidental spurts of beautiful acting she is allowed only serve to frustrate the viewer even...
...Frank X. Leonard '01 said he doubted that he and his running mate Katie E. Tenney '01 would remain on council...
...Dartmouth takes a lot of threes." Coach Frank Sullivan said. "We knew coming into this game that there would be a lot of long rebounds and it was just a matter of getting to them...
...surveillance tape taken from the store's video camera will be reviewed in hopes of identifying the perpetrator, said Frank D. Pasquarello, spokesperson for the Cambridge Police Department...