Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's love, when you let another professional wrestler beat...
APPEALING TO: The family-values crowd Women with hot flashes SANG BADLY IN: Ishtar (1987) At Long Last Love...
...strobe-lit quick cuts of gleaming torsos or Melrose Place's campy, heaving melodrama. But when Rick and Lily, the fortyish divorces (O.K., Lily doesn't have hers yet) whose romance fuels the new series Once and Again (ABC, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. E.T.), first make love, it's done like this: long, somber takes. Clumsy false starts. Cuddling. Tears. And talking. Lots of talking...
...local bookstore has a shelf of relationship books that is longer than most relationships, detailing how to find the love you want, how to get married and how to create, and try to maintain, those "positive illusions." In our popular culture, marriage seems to flow naturally from romance--Julia Roberts keeps running off with Richard Gere. Americans love to get married, but half our marriages don't take. Then we switch partners and remarry, with roughly the same odds of success...
...well-timed flashbacks, we meet Hata as young Lieut. Kurohata, an imperial Japanese army medic whose duties include gynecological examinations of the garrison's Korean comfort women. It's an odious job for a man sensitive enough to fall in love with one of these World War II sex slaves...