Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bigelow says the system has a logicalbeauty, which accounts for its popularity inacademic circles. Professors of political science,she says, tend to love PR. Voters often say theyhate...
Students of the American character will find plenty to chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...
PRODUCTION: Gail Music (Manager); Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Peter K. Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...
...children born to a sod-poor Dublin bricklayer. For the first nine years of Christy's life, his siblings tended him as they would a houseplant: feed it, water it and keep it out of the way. Only his mother dared nurture him with her fierce, uncompromising love, and one day Christy stuck a piece of chalk in his left foot and made his mark on the floor: MOTHER...
...picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally are flinty, unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap...