Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Used People might be Used Goods; it's this year's Moonstruck knock-off. The chief difference is that, as written by Todd Graff and directed by Beeban Kidron, this lower- middle-class New York City family is glumly dysfunctional instead of chipperly so. The matriarch is newly widowed Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), and oy, has she got troubles. One of her daughters (Marcia Gay Harden) is developing multiple personalities based on celebrity models. The other (Kathy Bates) is fighting fat and single-mom bitterness. Grandma (Jessica Tandy) is, perhaps sensibly, threatening to move to Florida...
...TIMING OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT -- THE 51ST ANniversary of Pearl Harbor -- was appropriate. NBC disclosed that this will be the last season for Cheers, the network's top hit and one of the most successful comedies in TV history. The show's producers decided to close the fictional Boston bar after 11 years...
...American Choice. With its emphasis on private-sector growth, personal responsibility and community service, the booklet anticipated many of Clinton's campaign proposals, as well as the party's 1992 platform. Notes Paul Begala, a top Clinton strategist: "Every oyster needs a grain of sand to make a pearl. Al From is the grain of sand that made the Clinton candidacy...
...than any other independent candidate in this century, save Teddy Roosevelt, who got 27.4% in 1912. But the maverick Texan got little boost from his final TV blitz. On election night he said he would continue to be "the grain of sand" that irritates an oyster into producing a pearl...
Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pearl Harbor's pollution is that it is duplicated at hundreds of military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away...