Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear statement of support for the policies he was due to defend on Capitol Hill the following day. Also, the Administration did not want the U.S. to get ahead of its Western allies on the sanctions issue, and Reagan in particular wanted to show his solidarity with his friend British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Western leader most outspoken against sanctions...
Thus the japery continued. A week before the wedding Fergie and her close friend and matchmaker, Diana, dressed themselves up as policewomen. Then they stole into Annabel's, a favorite haunt of London's young rich, and giggled at their secret over champagne before vanishing into the night. Not exactly Henry V slipping into disguise to mingle with the troops on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, but when it comes to rallying spirits, it seemed just as good...
...Steven Hill as Rachel's flighty dad and John Wood as a nightmare Alistair Cooke. Generous and precise, Nichols shoots many scenes in long takes, observing the characters like a decorous dinner guest. Always alert to gestural cinema, he takes his time following the tentative caress of a friend's hand on Rachel's swollen belly, or a mother's joy and responsibility as she leads her little daughter up the steps of a plane...
...relied on Ephron's cauterizing prose to anchor the reader; the movie's commentary is the dialogue that Streep's fine, suggestive face carries on with the viewer. Stranded in rage, this Rachel has only the camera as her therapist, and Streep will turn to it as to a friend, confiding a querulous eyebrow or subtle grimace, simultaneously inhabiting and commenting on her role. Nicholson has a tougher assignment. He is, here, only half a man, all surface and no substance, and finally he distances himself from Mark, his face going slack in a kind of moral torpor. But when...
...right now, but Rutledge hopes attitudes will become more enlightened. As he notes, it is a sobering fact that addicts find it easier to get drugs than clean needles. That means the AIDS threat will grow every time an addict shoots up with a dirty needle supplied by a friend or a drug dealer...