Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newer American nightmares: an allegedly grown child who turns up on the parental doorstep asking for his old room back. Not to mention all the other emotional comfort zones of the past. Usually this occurs when either a career has stalled or a marriage has crashed and burned. But there's no either/or for John Henderson, played by the depressives' national treasure, Albert Brooks, who also directed Mother and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson. Blocked as a writer and devastated by divorce, Henderson goes home in part because he doesn't have a psychological leg left to stand...
...bicker their way out of trouble. This involves the former leaders in an improbable outside-the-Beltway odyssey. But in its course, they get in close touch with the reality behind the social-policy abstractions they're used to--a homeless family, gay-pride marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted and knowing (one of the screenwriters worked in the Carter White House) political humor. My Fellow Americans puts a very bright capper on this dismal political year...
...Virgin Mary. Forty years ago, the demure images of the Virgin atop the globe, distributed at First Communions and spelling bees and treasured thereafter, could be found around the necks of a veritable legion of Roman Catholics. Today they have fallen so far from favor that their mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin as they embraced feminism. Those inspired by the upcoming season to reflect on the Heavenly...
...might expect there to be more than a few grumbles from players upset about the prospect of missing so much vacation time, not to mention that none of the teams traveling this December is going anywhere remotely warm...
...signs of online religious activity are everywhere. If you instruct AltaVista, a powerful Internet search engine, to scour the Web for references to Microsoft's Bill Gates, the program turns up an impressive 25,000 references. But ask it to look for Web pages that mention God, and you'll get 410,000 hits. Look for Christ on the Web, and you'll find him--some 146,000 times...