Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much hyped movie, "Waiting to Exhale" is based on the best-selling, and better written, novel by Terry McMillan. The movie's central characters are four black women trying to eke out a living for themselves in Scottsdale, Arizona: Savannah (Whitney Houston), Bernadine (Angela Bassett), Gloria(Loretta Devine) and Robin (Lela Rochon). Also featured are big-screen talents Wesley Snipes, who plays Bernadine's post-marital love interest, and Gregory Hines, who plays Marvin, Gloria's last chance at romance...
While the movie encourages women to defend their dignity and fight to retain a sense of self, the goal of such self-improvement is to catch a better man. Gloria eventually gains confidence and a positive self image, and Bernadine learns to believe in love, but they are taught these powerful lessons by men they barely know...
With every male character a two-dimensional action figure complete with well worn label of "Horrible Hubby," "Sassy Son," or "Belligerent Boyfriend" it's no wonder the movie seems a bit empty. The most personable male present is Gloria's gay hairdresser, who's a good listener, expressive and excellent at relating to all the women. This is just as tired a stereotype...
...Clinton administration officials are crediting international cooperation with the breakup of an alien smuggling ring and the arrest of one of its leaders. Earlier this month, forty-year-old Gloria Canales of Costa Rica was arrested in Ecuador on charges of smuggling, bribery, falsification of documents and homicide, said an official with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Officials said that the Canales ring smuggled at least 10,000 people a year into the U.S. through Central America, many of them Chinese and Indians, for fees of up to $6,000 apiece. In February,the State and Justice Departments...
...Goldman as manipulative when he "played the Holocaust card," as if this were all a game with no real issues and no real consequences. Bates revealed an astonishing lack of sensitivity. This was a callous dismissal of the malignant and ever present force that the Holocaust holds for Jews. GLORIA W. GOVERMAN Stormville, New York...