Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jake's mother Helen (Frances Sternhagen) is a tyrant of the hearth. She has X-ray eyes, but she can discern no conceivable virtue in anyone who disputes her dictums about food, home furnishings and the proper cowing of a child. She has a deep-freeze heart, and Jake had been stored there until he could be thawed out by externally approved success at the newspaper. For Jake's mother and father, the Times is the Talmud...
...American housing (all those folks grinning out at the Eisenhower years from their patios, their barbecues) may have overdone the home comforts. It diverted billions that perhaps should have gone into the nation's industrial plant The Reagan Administration (for all its warm rhetorical embrace of hearth and family) wants to readjust the nation's tax and credit policies to favor business investment over mortgage investment...
...directed. Even the best worker-especially the best worker-will often, when thwarted, swallow his rage; it then turns into a small private conflagration, the fire in the engine room. A race of urban nomads who have wandered far from family roots tends to turn work into the spiritual hearth, a chief source of warmth and support. When the supervisor proves to be an idiot, when the pay is bad or the job insecure or unrewarding, then the worker experiences a strangely intimate and fundamental sense of betrayal, a wound very close to the core. Or perhaps the wound...
While Hollywood movies send up skyrockets of comedy and terror, the French cinema smolders like an untended hearth fire. No more the giddiness of the New Wave, whose anarchic high spirits fragmented film language and frag-bombed bourgeois complacency. Twenty years later, the bourgeoisie is again dominant, but now more thoughtful, less ready to judge. Like a concerned family doctor, today...
...George Bush and his chief aide, Admiral Daniel Murphy, arrive at the Oval Office to listen to the daily briefing by National Security Adviser Richard Allen. Reagan moves from the desk to a peach-colored wingback chair in front of a crackling hearth. Allen sits in a matching chair while the others occupy two sofas separated by a coffee table and a bouquet of freshly cut daisies, carnations and snapdragons. Allen starts with Poland. As the civilians who lack security clearances file out of the room, Reagan asks about the political leanings of Warsaw's new premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski...