Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played by Bruce Dern with wonderfully psychotic poise and a barbed-wire halo of gray hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions, he mutates from a slightly curious homeowner to a horribly singed home wrecker. Hanks throws himself into this antiaudience movie...
...electrical equipment, as well as plastic molding and precision machining plants, a foundry from a Danish firm, a metal-working plant, a power station, a water-treatment facility, a maintenance workshop and three warehouses. He had plenty of money to spend; one Rabta contract, he boasted to a friend, was worth nearly $2 billion...
...Friends and observers agree that her husband's presidential defeat was an emotionally crushing blow to Kitty. An energetic and ambitious woman, she had thrived on the demanding schedule, tumult and attention of the campaign. Sandy Bakalar, a close friend, says, "Kitty was going 1,000 miles a minute. Then on Nov. 8 it was suddenly over. It was a terrible loss." Her husband, meanwhile, handled the loss in his usual stoic fashion. "Kitty had to do the mourning for both of them," says Richard Gaines, editor of the Boston Phoenix, who has long reported on the Dukakis family...
...years the U.S. has assessed human rights abuses around the world. But never has a friend figured as prominently as one has this year, when twelve pages of the State Department's survey were devoted to the "substantial increase in human rights violations" by Israel in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The report sketched a picture of excessive force by the Israeli army, resulting in "many avoidable deaths," against the Palestinian uprising. This account of shootings, beatings, imprisonment and deportation is the most critical U.S. review ever of Israeli actions in the territories...
...Colorado representative said she and Hope have maintained a close friendship, but refused to reminisce about their Law School days together. "I see a lot of her in Washington. She's a very good friend," was all that Schroeder would...