Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deep End may remind you of a "quality" TV play of the '50s: it is conscientious, delicately acted, lacking in visual flair. It is so generous to all the characters that it tends to meander. Now it's Beth's story, now Vincent's, now Sam's. It has little interest in villainy: the backstory of the kidnapping takes just moments. But in a time when there are few serious family dramas--and when those few, like Stepmom, play it shrill and sticky--the old limitations can look like cardinal virtues...
...entire cast does fine work, but Pfeiffer is a treasure. She calibrates each nuance of loss without seeming calculating. She makes Beth sensible and alive, as understandable as that nice woman next door whose sobs wake you in the night to remind you that we are all one vagrant step from heartbreak...
...Soon, students trickle back to the House to nap or to attend sports practices, a cappella rehearsals and Phillips Brooks House Association meetings. After cleaning, sweeping, mopping and incinerating, Antonio finishes shoveling the courtyard as a light snow begins to fall. The returning "children" remind Antonio of his own brood. His daughter (age 13) and two sons (ages 8 and 6) will imminently arrive home from Dorchester public schools and fend for themselves until Antonio returns...
...decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, but unlike his colleague Sen. J. Robert "Bob" Kerrey (D-Neb.), who lost a leg in combat, he carries no visible scars of his service to remind voters of his heroism...
...deterrent may be the stories of kids like Loren Wells. That's why, besides pushing his state to adopt a stricter graduated licensing law, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge is taking an extra precaution. "I cut out the articles about those girls," says Ridge. "And I've saved them to remind my own children down the road...