Word: irma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the characters were inherently funny: a buff but sensitive astronaut named Jed Eyenite (Darin P. Goulet '97), a thpitting thucker named Sally Vader (Danton S. Char '98), an arch-browed failed villainness named Irma Geddon (Jesse J. Hawkes '99) and a nerdy Bob Marley named Cal Ipsobeat (Robert E. Schlesinger '00). Not to mention the undeniable show-stealer by virtue of costume, Hugh Jegg (Jason R. Mills '99), an enormous specimen of the ovarian persuasion who did a mean Philip Marlowe imitation...
...offending products and demand accurate information on the labels of everything they purchase. If you can have a label that says NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS, you can also have one saying NO CHILD LABOR WAS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THIS PRODUCT. And make sure it is true. IRMA PARDO Mexico City...
...killed her is not in his heart. Ray has hidden his long-denied anger beneath a smoothly affable manner. Earl is hiding his more recent astonishment under stony taciturnity. But big-city circumstances force him to take refuge in Ray's home, where his blind, wise, straight-talking aunt (Irma P. Hall) maneuvers the brothers toward reconciliation...
...film is well acted, and Duvall and Jones generate some genuine, tastefully understated chemistry without slipping into sloppy sentiment. Another plus is Irma Hall, who is wonderfully enjoyable as the testy, domineering, but open-minded and warmhearted Aunt T., the sister of Earl and Ray's dead mother. But "A Family Thing" stumbles in its attempt to bring other, cliched themes and subplots into play. Earl's first few days in Chicago, including his night of drunken wandering, are a tired variation on "hillbilly enters the big city," with a few half-hearted efforts at humor and some moments...
...small apartment off Branka Surbata Street, however, they have never been divided. The story of Rabija Oprhal, her husband Kruno, 53, son Alen, 26, daughter Irma, 19, and their Serb friends provides heartbreaking evidence that a fraternal feeling between Muslims and Serbs survives. The family's experiences during the war and now in the midst of this vengeful peace prove that members of the two groups can live together and care for one another, even under the most dangerous circumstances. For the Oprhals were saved, they say, by their Serb neighbors and by sympathetic Serb soldiers. "They were nice. They...