Word: household
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During a North woods blizzard, jealous Reggie Shand (Christopher Lloyd) literally left his infant brother Robert to the wolves. Now, 30 years later, Penny (Amy Steel), a pretty young scientist, discovers "Bobo" (Mandel), whom the wolves have raised as one of their own. She returns Bobo to the Shand household, thwarting Reggie's plan to appropriate his brother's inheritance, now that he has squandered his own. Penny spends the rest of the movie trying to teach Bobo to act like a person, while Reggie tries to think of ways to steal Bobo's money...
...trial put flesh on once abstract matters. It made plain the almost palpable tenderness of Stern and his wife Elizabeth, a pediatrician, both 41, and the no less compelling attachment of Whitehead, 29, and her husband Richard, 37, a sanitation worker. It savagely peered into problems of the Whitehead household -- his battle with alcoholism, their financial setbacks -- that raised doubts about whether surrogacy permits the more prosperous and sophisticated to exploit those who are less so. It offered the dismaying court spectacle of a mental-health expert disparaging Whitehead's skills as a mother because of how she played...
...people were prosecuted in 1986 for illegally making their own booze. Soviet moonshining has traditionally been confined largely to rural folks, but last year 40% of the offenders were urban dwellers. Half were under 30, and many were housewives concocting homemade vodka, or samogon, to pay for household expenses. Worse, some 200 thirsty comrades have died from drinking alcohol substitutes like antifreeze...
Under Tureen's guidance, the Maine Indians used a third of their settlement to repurchase 300,000 acres of lost forest land. Another third was put into a trust and now provides each Passamaquoddy and Penobscot household with a $1,000 to $1,200 annuity. To help the Indians invest the remaining $27 million, Tureen set up Tribal Assets in partnership with Daniel Zilkha, 44, a Princeton friend and former Wall Street investment banker. Because of Zilkha's connections in the financial community, says Tureen, "we had access to capital markets in a way that Indians would never have...
Many are the untold secrets of the household. The last governess died mysteriously, and Miles' teacher did too. To complicate matters, she begins to hallucinate, seeing the images of the dead governess and teacher hovering around the children. She starts and screams for no reason, and all this within three days of arriving at the manor...