Word: greenway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be almost indifferent to the Oscar. She was often far better than the scripts of her 39 movies, but that was not always enough to make a performance memorable. Then came Terms of Endearment. Aurora Greenway was the part of a lifetime, and also a trap. Says MacLaine: "Aurora was an impossible, demanding, smothering, self-indulgent woman who made me laugh a lot. I adored her directness, her lack of self-censorship and her capacity to grow...
...statuettes were for best picture (he co-produced Terms), best director and best screenplay adaptation, and two of his picture's stars also came in first. Shirley MacLaine was named best actress for her role as Aurora Greenway, the film's impossible but ultimately likable mother, and Jack Nicholson was chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies...
...movie begins with anxious, ferocious Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...
...designing award-winning projects like the Harlem River State Park in New York and the downtown greenway park in Madison, Wisconsin--along with parks and garden spaces for the headquarters of several corporations--Friedberg said he has renewed decaying urban areas and made them "reflect the social change of their times...
...University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, Mich. She later was director of the Thomas School in Rowayton, Conn., and in 1977 became headmistress of Madeira. With a student body of 325 girls (tuition for boarders: $6,100), the school occupies almost 400 closely guarded acres of woodland in Greenway, Va., overlooking the Potomac River. Harris soon became known as a stern disciplinarian. She watched every detail, banning packages of crackers because she was upset about the wrappers thrown on the dining room floor. On a larger issue, she once ruled nearby Georgetown off-limits because some students had been drinking...