Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal day only little things go wrong. Like, the train never shows up. Or it shows up, but it is two cars short and you face air where usually there is your seat. Or the train has enough cars, but it stops ten feet away from the spot where, eight times out of ten, it usually stops, which means the doors open in front of the irregulars who have no usual waiting spot. Or all the other doors open, but yours doesn't, and you stand there and watch the car fill up. Or the train is under...
...break her bones, but she ruled her with an iron hand." The violence started, the acquaintance recalls, "when Olga began to have a mind of her own, which was pretty early, at about five." Svetlana apparently could not grasp that the child's displays of independence were perfectly normal. Says the friend: "Olga is a very spirited, independent girl, and her mother could never tolerate that, ever...
...sentiment for Goetz? "It may simply indicate that there are no more liberals on the crime and law-and-order issue in New York, because they've all been mugged," said Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson, author of Thinking About Crime. "Therefore the normal partisan divisions no longer obtain in a situation of this sort...
...fewer events this year. Gone are 1981's candlelight dinners and highbrow concerts at the Kennedy Center, and satellite balls across the country. Even the parade following the public swearing-in, with its 57 floats, 43 bands, the U.S. equestrian team and a dogsled, has been cut from the normal 2 1/2 hrs. to 1 hr. 15 min. The method: faster marching...
MICKI AND Maude cannot escape the Edwardsian aura of mechanical humor, though the actors manage to emerge with more of their humanity intact than normal for one of Edwards's movies. Part of the reason is that an obsession for fatherhood is a far more complicated affair than an obsession for sex, chocolate, or even motherhood. Another good chunk of the credit goes to the three principals, all of whom appear friendly and accessible on the screen. I would even have given some of the credit to Edwards had I not stuck around to see the movie's credits...