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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediate Family touches all these bases lightly, like a gazelle on a home- run trot. Openhearted and canny, the film offers few answers, takes no sides. It paints the yups, Linda and Michael, as decent, attractive people. Their friends' kids may run wild in a toddler road show of Lord of the Flies, but the Spectors seem ideal parents-to-be. Yet they can't be biological parents. Every month Linda says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks...
...enabled America not only finally to confront the outcome of the Viet Nam War but also to begin the long process of healing. The memorial made it possible for the country to come together and honor those who had served -- those who had died and those who had come home to anything but a hero's welcome. Lin was proud of her achievement, yet disillusioned by the negative reactions her design had initially elicited ("a black gash of shame," to cite one), by the battles she had to wage to keep the "additions" of a flag and statue far away...
...living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet Nam Veterans Memorial...
Some people collect Victorian hatpins. Others accumulate matchbooks. Mel Poretz, 60, is a compulsive collector of useless information. He knows exactly how many steps there are in his Merrick, N.Y., split-level home (21). As a child he knew how many stars surrounded the mountain peak in the Paramount Pictures logo (26 originally, now just 22). And like many people who are happy in their jobs, he has found a way to put his obsession to work...
Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...