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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parable to make his points about race, law, religion, and the intersection of the three. Through dialogues between his fictional characters Geneva Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer who has tapped into an otherworldly body of Black demi-gods known as the Celestial Curia, and her Black law professor friend, Bell lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding the legal process--a way that is uniquely Black...
Though she was only a novice sailor, Aebi took the boat. Last week she triumphantly returned to New York harbor, completing a 29-month, 27,000-mile circumnavigation. Aebi unwittingly jeopardized her chance to be the youngest person ever to make the trip alone when she gave a friend a ride from Pago Pago to Western Samoa, a distance of only 75 miles. Still, setting records was not the point. Said her father, as the champagne flowed: "She's become a very accomplished person...
...Father Dowling). And the title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which a man, sure of his wife's fidelity, persuades his best friend to woo her, and the result is hot sex and violent death. Hollywood could even keep Cervantes' title for the tale: Fatal Curiosity...
...Datal Attraction." The thriller is not the only genre chilled by contemporary sexual skirmishing. In Armyan Bernstein's comedy Cross My Heart, two nice people (Martin Short and Annette O'Toole) endure the Date of Death. He borrows his best friend's car and apartment; one is stolen, the other trashed. She gets a leg cramp while they make out; he sees his shirt get singed on a nearby lamp as they make love. She won't tell him she has a young daughter; he won't tell her he has just lost his job. This sweet, slightly strained film...
...friend at the Connecticut school, Screenwriter Sarah Kernochan, recalls that Close was "petrified at dances" and "terrified when the other girls would discuss sex." In school plays, however, she won the most demanding parts. "She would do anything as a performer...