Word: marination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Governor George Deukmejian declared four counties disaster areas: Los Angeles and San Diego in the south, San Mateo and Marin in the north. Some intrepid souls used surfboards to negotiate flooded streets. Others sandbagged their homes. Cleanup crews frantically cleared tree limbs and tried to keep drains open, but even as the week's fourth major rainstorm was spending itself, forecasters were warning of more bad weather. Still, little seemed to dampen the spirits of fans attending Sunday's Super Bowl game in Pasadena, though city officials had to do a lot of scrambling. Because the golf course...
...seventies and early eighties have been a lousy time to be young. They have brought Passages, the New Divorced Woman, the Sensitive Father, consciousness-raising and Marin County ad nauseum. Shoot the Moon has them all, again. The film presents an attractive nuclear family falling apart into a cliched state of modern entropy. Shuttling between Osterizer and station wagon, Diane Keaton oozes domesticity as much as she radiates pure will in Reds. But Faith Dunlap is a much less interesting woman and wife than Louise Bryant, and provides a much less challenging character for Keaton's talents. Albert Finney portrays...
...proposals are "something of a red herring," Dallas Marin president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators told the lobbyists. He counseled that students counter any suggestion of resorting the GSLs in "exchange" for the Pell grants by "telling them, 'We absolutely dismiss this; now let's look at the rest of your bad proposals...
...which people leave people these days, and Daughter Sherry (Dana Hill) is not buying any of them. Nor is she covering her confusion with forgiveness. Better just not to speak to the creep. When Faith tries to avoid a scene by keeping George out of their handsome old Marin County house, George breaks in and pounds up the stairs to confront his eldest. She fights off his blend of bewildered love and rage. He spanks her. She threatens him with a scissors. They end in a sodden tangle of bodies and emotions...
From such Californians, one learns that funk is fun. But no antidote has yet been found to the bite of the state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...