Word: hectoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncovers a web of shady dealings and family secrets after his wife's suicide -- is a more complex, less easily digested work. Still, it might have clicked if the convoluted plot had not sprawled over four padded hours. Or if the made-for-TV cast had been better. Hector Elizondo plays the defense attorney in one monotonous key: prissy naivete. Victoria Principal, Stefanie Powers and Mel Harris, randomly chosen from a bin marked EX-PRIME-TIME STARS LOOKING FOR WORK, leave no impression whatsoever as the women in his life. The Burden of Proof is darker and more nuanced than...
Number-one Fraiberg lost three tough matches to defending amateur champion Hector Barrigan...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD. In these politically correct days, most epic journeys into exotic lands are guilt trips, pinning blame for the world's woes on the evil white male. Director Hector Babenco's turgid trek into the Brazilian rain forest accomplishes this and more: it makes the viewer feel guilty for wasting three hours and seven bucks...
...produced some bright, populist TV comedy (Laverne and Shirley, Mork & Mindy). No surprise, then, that McNally's play, a bedroom debate for two characters, is now a superior sitcom pilot, with lots of brisk banter and a wacky supporting cast. Setting: West Side luncheonette. Owner: a menschy Greek (Hector Elizondo). Waitresses: & sleep-around Cora (Kate Nelligan) and drab, acid Nedda (Jane Morris). Mood: strenuously genial. Take on New York: it's a hard place, but ya gotta...
...Mayor Hector Luis Acevedo is visiting Harvard as part of an association begun in 1987, when the HIID provided technical assistance in creating the San Juan AIDS Institute...