Word: hi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three passions consume the roiling romantic soul of Herbert I. ("Hi") McDonnough (Nicolas Cage). He has a fondness, though not really much of a talent, for robbing convenience stores. He loves his wife Edwina (Holly Hunter), a police officer he met on his frequent vacations at the local prison. And he shares her desire to create little baby His and Eds. Says Hi, in the daft and plangent narration that sets the tone for this terrific comedy: "Every day we kept a child out of the world was a day he might later regret having missed...
...Alas, as Hi mournfully notes, "biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep us childless." Translation: Ed is barren, and the adoption agencies are not persuaded that a three-time loser would be a suitable father. Then Hi and Ed hear of a man who has more babies than he could find any honorable use for. This is Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), the Unfinished- Furniture King of the Southwest and sire of Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry and Nathan Jr., the famous Arizona quints. It is a temptation no child-hungry couple could resist. They should have, though...
...discouraged," said a wry and relaxed Cuomo the next day. He emphasized the difficulties of campaigning for the presidency while holding another office. "You can't win without going to Iowa and New Hampshire. One of the candidates has been in Iowa for 50 days. I can't say, 'Hi, I'm Mario Cuomo. I'm only here for a day because I have these guys in New York beating...
...Hope University in Anaheim, Calif., they are being trained to reveal their surprising gifts and develop self-confidence. Some have multiple handicaps: Paul Kuehn, for example, is blind, yet he has the ability to reproduce and create music and is one of the stars of a school group, the Hi Hopes, who have sung to thunderous applause at concerts from Disneyland and Las Vegas to the White House lawn and the stage of Opryland...
...Park, where one of her students, Kuehn, was considered autistic and virtually untrainable. During a music period she mumbled under her breath, "Now what key do we do this song in?" Kuehn correctly piped up, "Key of G." His vocal training began immediately and gave rise to the first Hi Hopes group...