Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American way of life. There was, of course, Senator Trent Lott's comparison of homosexuality to kleptomania. Now a coalition of Christian-right groups is running full-page ads in newspapers with the message that homosexuals are so lost it will take divine intervention for them to become normal. With plans to put the ads on TV just before the election, an entire wing of the party looks poised to fan hatred of gays just to get out the vote...
...wildly exaggerated version of an over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene jokes, sexist comments and alcohol-induced insults, deftly making you want to strangle him; and Paula Plum, playing Boo's mother, giggles...
...reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power. It is goody-two-shoes Bullock who does most of the magic...
...interesting guy," Debayle says. "Ithought, `I'm pretty normal compared to you.' Buthe was cute...
...would have thought that last Sunday was commencement day by the way the sun was shining over Harvard. In Lowell House, the celebratory atmosphere was tangible, with the rows of chairs set up in the courtyard, the undergraduates dressed in better-than-normal attire and the tutors and administration sporting their academic robes. But while some of the seniors might have hoped that C-Day had come early, the occasion for ceremony was instead the installation of the new masters of Lowell, Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...