Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy roof in Saigon, a televised vignette of ignominy that is still replayed in the U.S.'s memory. Now Viet Nam has suffered its own setback: after more than a decade of trying to defeat a rural insurgency in Cambodia, a Vietnamese expeditionary force has given up and gone home...
...Evanses, Nicole and their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...
...suggested the project, is the adoptive father of Piya, 5, and Mike, 4. Already parents of a son, David, who arrived the conventional way, Willwerth and his wife Ardis chose a daughter and a second son from two different Bangkok orphanages during his assignment in Thailand. Giving a home to "waiting" children "longing for love and attention," says Willwerth, "is to witness an extraordinary miracle. They blossom before your eyes." As he talked with other parents, children and adoption professionals, he says, "I had credentials rare to most assignments -- Piya and Mike. When I mentioned them, interviews came alive...
Miller is based in Wisconsin, the home state ofSen. Herbert Kohl (D-Wisc.), who co-sponsored themodified amendment
...Innocent Man scrapes by with a few more scars than Jimmie after a gang fight. Though photographers and editors conceal none of the movie's injuries, their beautiful shots foil Jimmie's jail-sentence better than his home life does...