Word: householders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show season after season for years should not be vulnerable to sudden disruption from outside the screen. I have plenty of friends who grew up with single parents--or double parents who didn't much like each other--for whom Bill Cosby's intact, warm TV household was a crucial refuge. Now it's gone. And no matter how the current story evolves, those reruns will be difficult to watch, those comforting memories tainted if not spoiled. When Ricky Nelson, America's TV son, died in a mysterious plane crash, rumors swirled that the child actor turned rock star...
...sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage of roaches for such duties (more than 3,500 species exist), "but it will probably be hard to get the cameras back. Cockroaches don't like to be around people in commotion. And they generally die on their backs...
Gregory says she's still expected to help with household chores--"if there's a big snowstorm I might go back and help shovel...
...sure, a household name--like Bill Clinton, who dominated the front page this year with his masterful comeback victory, or Bill Gates, who deftly extended the scope of his software empire into news, television and the Internet. But some people make headlines while others make history. And when the history of this era is written, it is likely that the men and women who turned the tide on AIDS will be seen as true heroes...
...situations which illustrate visually the key themes of the film. Gregoire is an outsider at court, but an insider at the Doctor's country mansion. One scene shows him learning to dance in the doctor's parlor with Mathilde, as young Paul, a deaf-mute of the Doctor's household, mimicks them, dancing alone in the field outside. Or the masquerade scene, where Gregoire is barefaced, ringed by the towering wigs and vulture-like beaks of the masqueraders, the sole non-player...