Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambiguities excised. More subtly, they help viewers cope with tragic events by imparting the foreknowledge of God. Seemingly random occurrences of day-to-day life take on major significance with TV-movie hindsight. Early in Karen Carpenter, the teen-age Richard Carpenter grabs a pizza from his little sister. "You don't want to get fat, do you?" he taunts. Ah, if only they knew...
...pulp fiction goes, Karen Carpenter is quite enjoyable. Cynthia Gibb (who lip-syncs Karen's syrupy hits like Close to You) and Mitchell Anderson are convincing as the sister-brother act. Director Joseph Sargent traces their rise to fame in brisk if superficial strokes. The film (which lists Richard Carpenter as executive producer) is blunt about the troubles the young stars faced: overprotective, underaffectionate parents (Louise Fletcher, Peter Michael Goetz), Richard's drug problems, Karen's growing obsession with losing weight. The scrubbed duo make drug abuse look positively wholesome, but the movie deftly grafts the morbid thrills...
...walks out on him because his grief has made him so deeply withdrawn that he cannot help her bear her sorrow. Her departure leaves Macon with his dismal career as a writer of travel books for people who hate traveling; with the dubious consolations of his own family, a sister and two brothers who are as joylessly guarded and compulsive in their behavior as he is; and, of course, the excellent but increasingly (and understandably) snappish company of Edward...
...sense, psychic salvation is just an elevator ride away. In the lobby of the Time & Life Building, I can obtain an impressive desktop planner offered by our sister publication FORTUNE magazine. But I just could not imagine treating the appointment book's appendices, filled with FORTUNE 500 listings, as a personal breviary. Let others run with the bulls and the bears; the symbol of my investment strategy has always been the Cowardly Lion. To me, a term like "covering a short position" refers to St. Louis Cardinal infielder Ozzie Smith...
...might be trapped. But Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in charge of the rescue effort, admitted, "There is a shortage of equipment." The need was critical. "Every hour of delay means another 20 dead out of every thousand buried," said Soviet Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov. Doctors from several sister republics were rushed into the region to minister to 19,000 injured people, nearly a third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack of antibiotics, disposable syringes and blood supplies. About 6,500 Soviet soldiers were dispatched...