Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half is an almost entirely wordless dance ensemble piece set to Lloyd Webber's Variations, based on Paganini's A minor Caprice. One of the unseen characters in the first half, the young woman's nearest approximation to a true love (Christopher d'Amboise), prowls his way through the fleshly entertainments of Manhattan, only to decide he is ready to settle down, whereupon the young woman reappears to accept his offer. Like the woman, the young man is an outsider: as his trademark red jacket proclaims, he is from Nebraska. Like her, he is dazzled by bright lights...
...fair co-ed Barbara. Then, after the destruction of the initial premise by the villainous Stiers, the plot divides itself into so many branches that by movie's end, there is no resolution of plot or character--no perfect ending to be revealed by some bad movie critic. The minor miracle at film's end is merely the impossible cap to an implausible development of character and situation, something only a cute ET could pull...
William Hurt is Molina, a homosexual window dresser in his 30's sentenced to eight years with no parole for "corrupting a minor"; his cellmate, Valentin, played by Raul Julia, is a political prisoner held without trial and frequently tortured to disclose the names of his fellow Marxist rebels...
...receptors for estrogen on the surfaces of cells that have migrated from the breast tumor, thus halting the division of the cells and preventing them from seeding tumors in other parts of the body. Unlike conventional chemotherapy, which usually causes loss of hair and severe nausea, tamoxifen produces only minor side effects, such as hot flashes and mild nausea, and only in about one-quarter of patients...
...ovation swelled last Wednesday, everyone in Cincinnati's brimming ball park felt close to Rose, but only First Base Coach Tommy Helms was nearby. A quarter of a century ago, Helms and Rose were minor-league roommates, partners in mischief, who both became Rookies of the Year in the National League. A temporal way of fixing Rose's career is to remember that Helms actually followed him to that eminence by three seasons but has already beaten him to pasture by eight. Displaying tenderness publicly for the first time maybe in 44 years, the great roughneck laid his head...