Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turf over which the Vaughnum cousins are scuffling is Honeysuckle Hill, a rundown mansion with 25 acres of barren land. Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg...
...great roles were bit players shoved center stage, who without power or grace had to make do with the peculiar strengths of the insignificant. The confused inventor in The Man in the White Suit, the "fubsy" robber in The Lavender Hill Mob, and most especially Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, are all men who have greatness thrust upon them. Olivier would have made Col. Nicholson a hero; Guinness kept him a man. It is fitting, somehow, that after a great and varied career--one which won him an Oscar and knighthood--most movie-goers remember...
...CHESTNUT HILL--On days like yesterday, two things about the game of softball become very clear...
...more and more cars across the U.S. Is this a parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic sense of humor have marketed alternative signs. Among the new offerings: nobody on board, child carries no cash...
...baseball pitcher whom not even New York City can enlarge or exaggerate stands atop the hill and the heap at 21. Without counting the mound, which is also situated about ten inches above the rest of the field, Dwight Gooden in just two major league seasons has risen like an illusion of a fastball to a height somewhat loftier than 6 ft. 3 in., and a level nearly beyond imagination. When Sandy Koufax says, "I'd trade anyone's past for Gooden's future," that includes Walter Johnson's, Grover Cleveland Alexander's, Bob Feller...