Word: mums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Boorman's family -- here called the Rohans -- waged and, from a semidetached house in suburban London, waited out the war against Hitler. Dad (David Hayman) joined the army. Mum (Sarah Miles) stayed home with the three children. The teenage daughter (Sammi Davis) discovered the romance of sex under fire. Her preschool sister (Geraldine Muir) held on to any available hand. And Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards), Boorman's seven-year-old surrogate, was thrilled to pieces by the explosive newness of it all. A bombed-out house with all its booty! A Luftwaffe pilot parachuting into the neighborhood! If these...
...though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises; most families find the strength to soldier on. Boorman is even gracious enough to cap his film with an idyllic reunion of clan Rohan. Mum and her sisters giggle conspiratorially; young Bill, now a gentleman of precious leisure, goes boating on the river. These are images every moviegoer can share as he closes Boorman's lovely memory book...
...determined to return home with the goods. Suddenly his team spied a North Vietnamese guard across the 17th parallel, inside North Viet Nam. North did not hesitate. He and a comrade stole across the border, wounded the guard and dragged him back into South Viet Nam. Mission accomplished. Keep mum about this, the lieutenant told his troops when they got back...
...markets adjusted to the shock of Volcker's impending absence, a new Fed- watching game had already begun. Every recent utterance by Greenspan was being scanned for inklings of his current views on inflation, interest rates and the dollar's value. By and large, Greenspan kept mum in anticipation of his Senate confirmation hearings in mid-July...
...periodically updated the family's entry in Burke's. Buckingham Palace remained tight- lipped on the matter. But Elizabeth Norman, head of the hospital's auxiliary, said she wrote to the Queen Mother about her nieces in 1982 and received a reply. In it, said Norman, the Queen Mum expressed surprise at the news that the two were still alive, and sent money to buy them gifts...