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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleased to see the Miami Herald rated as one of the ten best U.S. dailies. I read the paper when I was in the area recently. I loved it. I miss...
...film begins on Samantha Baker's (Molly Ringwald) sixteenth birthday, but soon shows that turning sixteen is not "sweet," adolescence not as idyllic as it seems in retrospect. The film is packed with the special pains of the age--embarassing crushes, parents who never fail to miss the point, and a perpetual crisis of self-confidence Sixteen Candles is also filled with the familiar cast of characters, however, Hughes explores the stereotypical "geek," "studly guy" and "awkward freshman" with little of the predictability that characterizes most films about adolescence. Hughes instead captures these awkward years with a rare blend...
...title story, a megalomaniac writes a letter to a retired librarian, apologizing for an insult that the victim almost certainly does not remember. Small wonder. Some 35 years have passed since the young college teacher, raffishly sporting a baseball hat, walked by the library and encountered Miss Rose. She: "Oh, Dr. Shawmut, in that cap you look like an archaeologist." He: "And you look like something I just dug up." Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut...
...Miss Manners' idea of democracy is a society in which the upper and lower classes revere the same standard of graciousness, Martin wrote in her national bestseller, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour," a 700-page volume which deals with etiquette dilemmas from circumcision rites to old family silver...
Martin covered the diplomatic and political social circuit and served as a drama and film critic before starting her syndicated "Miss Manners" column, which deals humorously with what she calls a serious issue--social manners: "I am very serious about the need for civility in our society, but I don't think I could write about it seriously," Martin said in an interview yesterday...