Word: schoolgirlisms
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Henry "Hopper" Nash, (Sean Penn), the film's protagonist, is a James Dean facsimile who struggles to win the heart of a supposedly wealthy schoolgirl, Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern), by leaving her flowers and playing tunes for her on the piano. When not occupied with thoughts of Caddie, Hopper--Nash's affectionate nickname--work as a pin boy at the local bowling alley, pals around with his high school buddy. Nick (Nick Cage) and romanticizes about going off to battle and blowing up Japs...
...talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
Recent confrontations between Israeli soldiers and civilians with Arabs on the West Bank lead some to denounce Israeli mistreatment of its Arab neighbors. Many of the incidents have indeed been tragic, most notably the killing of an Arab schoolgirl and the maiming of her sister by an Israeli soldier. This and similar incidents, along with the continued expropriation of Arab land for Israeli settlement, only exacerbate the already dangerous tensions in the area. The military administration in the West Bank too has been criticized so in some cases, for the use of arbitrary arrest under the pretext of safely precautions...
...miniature seats. Details about the disaster have seeped slowly into the Soviet Union, and the pedestrians passing in front of the Japan Air Lines office in downtown Moscow pause to ponder the tragedy of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. "Oh, is that the plane?" asks a wide-eyed schoolgirl. "It's so big." Murmurs her friend: "All those people." The exact death toll of 269 has not been made public to the Soviet people. "More than 200, I heard," offers a young man wearing an imitation-leather jacket. But even as he shakes his head, he echoes the brazen...
...when her child was an infant, and a male homosexual, who died in a boating accident a year later. She has been raised by a leathery lesbian aunt and her feminine girlfriend, whom the child called Daddy and Mommy. (To aggravate matters, Dawn switched those names around as a schoolgirl after learning that mommies stayed home like her aunt and daddies worked like the girlfriend.) Though any first-year psych major could offer a working hypothesis of what went wrong, Dawn and Lulu spend endless sessions on the long search for revelation. The ideology of the trek is Freudian...