Word: gether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the best science fiction, Strange Invaders is also social satire - in this case, on the very '80s belief that style is content, that anyone wearing or talking in the wrong fashion must be as odd as outer space. By slapping the two decades to gether (in Susanna Moore's knowing decor and costumes), Strange Invaders exposes the banalities and excesses of the popular art they produced. The classy cast (Paul LeMat, Louise Fletcher, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid) plays it deadpan but without a hint of derision, and coaxes the movie toward a full-throttle inspirational climax...
...turned and the two women shrieked with joy, embracing in recognition as tears streamed down their faces. It was the first time since the day of liberation in May 1945 that Wygodska had seen Zosia Piekorska, 55, one of her closest friends during the two years they spent to gether in concentration camps in Poland. Recalled Piekorska, now from Richmond, Va.: "We suffered together, we were hungry together. We were hoping together." Said Wygodska, now from New York City: "We came out barely alive. And now look at us. They say a cat has nine lives, but a human being...
Nakashima's forms follow nature. His famous coffee tables are made of planks sliced from the trunk or root systems of such trees as the redwood or Eng lish walnut. Their natural configuration remains unchanged. So do natural breaks in the wood, which Nakashima holds to gether with small pieces of wood shaped like butterflies...
...Tuesday afternoon the New York branch of the Federal Reserve called to gether the chairmen of New York City's ten largest banks to discuss the possible repercussions of Chase's refusal to make the interest payment. Officials were very fearful that if Chase persisted, some securities firms might find themselves in a cash squeeze. After the session, the Feder al Reserve issued a statement saying that it "stood ready as a lender of last resort" to help any commercial banks temporarily short of cash. It was the first time since the mini-financial panic following...
...lead of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Bennett opts to develop the story line almost entirely in song, including operatic recitatives. The tale is rather like the saga of the Supremes' rise from Harlem's Apollo Theater to top-of-the-pop-charts renown, to gether with the emergence of Diana Ross...