Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLOT of Law of Desire is worthy of any daytime melodrama. There are two love triangles, a spurned lover and characters jumping from bed to bed. As is clear from the very first scene, however, General Hospital this...
...lovers in this movie are homosexual and one of the love triangles includes a transsexual. And instead of the stifling seriousness of soap opera, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar injects a chaotic, farcical note which undermines the hackneyed plot...
Grief-stricken families are blessed with perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...
...been quietly grappling with her ^ unusual dilemma. As the top-ranking woman in the Reagan Administration, and as a highly visible and very popular official caught in the controversies of a challenging job, Secretary Dole has carved a unique and lofty niche in the Administration and her party. "I love my job," she says. "I really do." But her husband is running for President and needs her at his side. So, with mixed emotions, she has made what she calls "probably the most difficult decision of my life" and concluded that it is time for her to resign...
Gershwin tended to be facile in his attitude toward classical music: "I'd like to write a quartet some day," he mused. "But it will be something simple, like Mozart." Even today, when the rich harmonies of A Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even...