Word: friendships
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Death stalks me this year, distorting my sight. The death of my uncle overwhelmed my Christmas and my whole winter break. A friend's grandmother entered the hospital recently, weakened by a heart attack. And a long-dormant friendship rekindled soon after because of another death...
...college, we are curiously removed from the reality of death. We live for four years among those who least believe in its closeness. We can afford the transience of friendship, because we remain untouched by the nostalgia which a realization of mortality brings...
...Chinese team brochure made a grand declaration of universal friendship, then refused to divulge anything friendly or otherwise about the athletes except their dates of birth...
Scenes alternate between modern day and 1930s Alabama as the aged, lonely, yet very talkative Ninny Threadgood (Jessica Tandy) recounts the Interesting history of a friendship between two women she once knew to a neglected housewife, Evelyn, (Kathy Bates) whom she has randomly befriended in the waiting room of her nursing home...
...follow the narratives of the two pairs of friends--tomboyish Idgy Thread-good (Mary Stuart Masterson) and noble, lady-like, Ruth (Mary Louise Parker) in the 1930's, and Ninny and Evelyn--one theme assaults our consciousnesses: the power, perfectness and wonderfulness of female friendship...