Word: goer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falls for James Coles (Meg Tilly) nevertheless. Their growing relationship introduces problems an innocent Tex either always overlooked in his friendship with Johnny or never realized. Because of her money. Jamie like her brother is a "goer" as a carnival fortune-teller first tells...
Director Tim Hunter handles this theme subtlely Tex the "stayer" has a "goer" closer to home in Mason, who hopes to win a basketball scholarship to Indiana State University Mason explains his reasons to Tax simply. "Number one, it's the best team in its league, and number two, it's not in Oklahoma." Because Tex's surprise at his brother's dissatisfaction borders on confusion, if underscores Tex's innocence he only wants others to feel as content as he does "Don't worry," he tells Mason as their funds begin to run down. "Pop's coming back...
...best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along with her husband, is a popular partygiver and -goer. While the prosperous Phoenix lawyer regales guests with Irish jokes told in a brogue, she jumps in to lift stories along, without ever stepping on the punch lines...
...actors a final chance to escape the machinery of his production, frustrates our expectations one last time. He has destroyed the Lear we came to see and offered nothing tangible in its stead. It took guts. It failed. The theater buff will discover the dangers of excess. The theater-goer will learn the truth of Edgar's maxim: "The worst is not so long as we can say, 'This is the worst...
...because while some exhibitions have been able to pull in such huge audiences, curators are having trouble raising the funds to put on more "scholarly" exhibitions...If people just go to museums because Tut is highly publicized on television and radio, whether that then makes them a regular museum goer I think is highly questionable...