Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly 1.8 billion miles to inspect the planet Uranus. Such wonders are indeed extraordinary...
...Molly trilogy" mines the emotional convulsions that make every teenager feel he or she is the first lonely explorer on the dark side of the moon. Hughes is 36, but he provides no adult's-eye view of teen problems. Instead, he gets spookily in sync with the swooning narcissism of adolescence: that teachers are torturers, that parents are sweet but don't quite understand, that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien, that I feel all these things I can never express, that there must be someone out there who will love me to pieces...
Sean Penn is tops. Madonna's bad boy was a wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film...
...movie reel of his imagination, he sees himself standing alone in the desert, silhouetted against the moon, swathed in traditional Bedouin robes, a farsighted prophet of Islam and the mighty creator of the Great Arab Nation, stretching from the warm Persian Gulf to the dark Atlantic Ocean--a nation that would eclipse the West in power and glory and purity. Muammar Gaddafi is not a man of modest ambitions. Nor one without a sense of backlighting...
...Blue Moon Odom...