Word: saints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just what one would expect. Gold- plated lavatory fixtures. A kitchen on every floor. Three pianos and a harpsichord. Eighteen lace-covered pillows on the First Lady's richly canopied bed. Heroic ten-foot paintings of Marcos as a medal-bedecked leader and Imelda as a latter-day saint. A strobe-lighted and mirrored disco, outfitted with cushions bearing the mottoes of the Marcos millions. Example: "To be rich is no longer a sin, it's a miracle...
...course, the father's (or mother's) yearning for a son is so intense that the girl is called Howard anyway. Some nations feel obliged to intervene against such eccentricities. In France, it is illegal to give any child a name that is not already held by a saint (or a "well-known figure in ancient history"), who presumably would watch over the protege. The courts specifically forbade one couple to name their child Cerise (Cherry). In the U.S., by contrast, the Navy once got applications from half a dozen brothers who all bore names like Measles Jones and Pneumonia...
AGAINST ALL HOPE, Armando Valladares A BOOK OF TRAVELLERS' TALES, assembled by Eric Newby CECIL BEATON, Hugo Vickers HOME, Witold Rybczynski KRAZY KAT, Patrick McDonnell WARTIME WRITINGS: 1939-1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery...
...radically as Nothing in Common does. Start with David Basner (Tom Hanks), prince of the yuppies, a man whose smooth rise in an ad agency is not allowed to interfere with his commitment to the uncommitted singles life. Then watch as his aged parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) separate. The father loses his job and health just as the son is about to land a prize account. Now David must face the last, most painful transition that children have to make with their parents: role reversal. As they enter second childhood, he must become the responsible adult...
Lewis, balding and intense, is a thick-tongued speaker. But he is widely revered as a living saint, a man of courage and commitment who was always on the front lines. During the movement, he was arrested 40 times and beaten often. As an Atlanta councilman, he has set himself up as an unyielding moralist. "In some quarters they think I'm too honest, too open to be effective," he admits with pride...