Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion a contemporary parallel of Renaissance parables: Bogdanovich isn't clever enough to succeed. He prevent us from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended family of hard-core bikers emerges as a candidate...
...with some editing to enhance the book's readability. The results are also incredible, for not only was Ritter able to evoke the passion that is so unique to this sport, but he was also able to evince lively tales leeming with anecdotes, brimming with poignant memories and some homespun thought in the bargain...
...HUMAN COMEDY. William Saroyan's novel of homespun Americana packed little wallop as the book for this pop cantata, but the profligate melodiousness of Galt MacDermot's score and a dozen engaging actors just about sent audiences humming and floating out of the theater...
...heart of gold she has become a rocker with a golden voice. Sultry Rebecca De Mornay, 22, the schoolboy's dream who slinked and sashayed her way into Tom Cruise's house and heart in Risky Business, will appear as the rock-singing spouse of a homespun home-run hitter in a film called The Slugger's Wife. De Mornay's fantasy has always been to be a singer. So for the film she practiced long hours with Arranger Quincy Jones, and now several of her songs will be released as singles, at least...
Still, demographic accuracy remains a modest virtue in fiction. Giardina possesses greater gifts, notably in creating children who sound and act like children, and in compressing plot into homespun metaphor. Henna prepares a dinner of spaghetti topped with broccoli and garlic; the widow's son bursts out, "This is not what we eat." When Henna gazes at the woman he believes he loves, he thinks, "You are like an open book, always open to the wrong pages, revealing information no one is prepared for." Occasions like these easily give a glum and sometimes predictable story the air of authenticity...