Word: nut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...
...Jessica Lange and Susan St. James play three women down to their last nickels and thyme in High Cost of Living, each eager to drop the bad script life has tossed them, all of them desperate for money. They decide to rob a shopping mall. Curtin, with her wing-nut mouth, bolting eyebrows and thunderous thighs has the biggest role. While she never slips into Mrs. Loopner, or any other of her Saturday Night Live characters, Curtin is not as successful on the silver screen as she has been on the tube...
...respects, weep, and shower rose petals on the bier, which was surrounded by huge blocks of ice to prevent deterioration of the body. Tents were put up in front of the house to protect the throngs from the 100° temperatures. Water wagons arrived; so did the fruit and nut sellers, the garland threaders and the hawkers of betel nuts...
...huge number of voters undecided. In addition to the frustration over the hostages in Iran, economic troubles loomed large. Jobless contruction contractors turned up at a Rosalynn Carter motorcade through Green Bay to wave signs that read WILL I EVER AFFORD A HOME? and SEND JIMMY BACK TO THE NUT FARM...
Another challenge will be to count the illegal aliens. Says Barabba: "This is the real nut, probably the most difficult problem we face." Under Article I of the Constitution, the tally must include the "whole number" of persons in each state; the bureau has interpreted this provision to include the illegals...