Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy smile. "Manny has a strong mind and a strong body," she says. "Just like his mother. Except I am stronger." But she was heartbroken when he left for Manila. Dionisia recalls receiving a letter from him "saying how sorry he was [for leaving home] ... I was very, very sad. But after a while, I accepted his destiny...
...members of society least capable of doing math. "The dispensaries have really made my drug dealer step up," my friend told me. Not only is the dealer now charging $100 for a quarter ounce, compared with the $120 he'd charged for decades, but he has also started offering home delivery instead of shady parking-lot meetings. "He got more reliable. He used to be, 'Yeah, I can't do it today. Maybe tomorrow.' Sometimes you'd page him, and he'd never call you back. Now I'm like, 'I'm going to be at my house...
TOIVO ILVONEN, project manager for the world's largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, which had to lower its smokestacks to squeeze under a bridge on its maiden voyage to its home port...
...home, we see too many cats to count, but no evidence of that first child. Precious' mother Mary (Mo'Nique, an actress and comedian who had a role in Daniels' 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer), lolls about in a recliner, shouting orders and insults at her daughter when she's not smacking her around: if Precious isn't going to be in school, she'd better get herself to the welfare office and start bringing home her own check. Mary is an unabashed abuser of that system, and she's terrifying - unbelievably awful yet completely believable. Mo'Nique should prepare...
...Jones family home is an amber-lit hell, and we're not initially sure whether Precious is a prisoner or a participant in it. This isn't Bastard out of Carolina, with a cute little girl suffering while we rise up in indignation. The movie allows us moments of judging Precious - as Mrs. Lichenstein does - and then begins to roll out a series of nightmares that last the whole day long: rape, incest and a mother so lacking in human decency that she not only aided in a father's lust for a child but also considered that child...