Word: houston
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Bountiful succeeds primarily as a painstaking character portrayal that is unusually perceptive and occasionally brilliant. Geraldine Page is wonderful as Mother Watts, the doting, doddering old protagonist, a hymn-singing, sentimental Jewish mother who happens to be a Texas Christian. She lives in a cramped Houston apartment with her milquetoast son Ludie (John Heard) and shrill daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), leading a weary existence that only aggravates her deteriorating heart condition...
Finally, of course, despite some predictable obstacles, Page returns to Bountiful. She, Ludie, and a helpful sheriff (Richard Bradford) ruminate on the meaning of life in this deserted town. Then Page must return to Houston. That's all there...
...winner of that duel will very likely end up at Bright Center for the quarter finals. If not here, then at RPI's Houston Field House...
Adolfo Birch. Soph., Nashville, Tennessee. Very interested in improvement. Constantly requests progress reports. Also believes himself to be the only Houston Rockets fan at Harvard...
...memorial service, attended by President and Mrs. Reagan, is to be held today at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the astronauts trained for their ill-fated flight. The President planned to meet first privately with the families...