Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jamie Conway? A decent sort from upstate New York who can't come to terms with the fact that his mother (Dianne Wiest) died of leukemia or that his model wife Amanda (Phoebe Cates) has left him for good. Instead of dealing with reality, he is continually in pursuit of a good coke deal...
...chased the contras into Honduras. If you believe that Israel should exist as a state, you cannot deny its right to act like a state. There is no reason to believe that a Palestinian state would not similarly handle internal opposition. Palestinians have never shied away from violence in pursuit of their national goals...
What is left onscreen is a faithfully translated narrative. Jamie loses his job, loses his wife, uses his friends, mostly in the pursuit of drugs. But his story is an attenuated one, and when it is told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot...
MARIO PUZO'S THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM (NBC, beginning April 3, 9 p.m. EST). In a mini-series spanning nearly 30 years, Sophia Loren plays the stalwart matriarch of an Italian-immigrant family in pursuit of the American dream...
That Reagan's deployment of American troops in Central America undercuts the Arias peace plan is no suprise, that the Administration is willing to risk more American lives in pursuit of a vaguely defined foreign policy is even less of one. This attempted show of strength in Reagan's twilight hour is sadly indicative of his failed policy in the region. The timing of the deployment with the indictments of Lt. Col. Oliver North and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter may have succeeded in topping these criminal acts in the newspages--but it cannot be allowed to divert attention...