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Word: remanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor, a pretend merriment that at times becomes infectiously real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: They Defied the Doomsayers | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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