Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little love bite? Because, as he realizes too late, he will end up with the world's most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts its dank characters on display rather than cadging sympathy for them. It is the Blue Velvet of date-night spook shows...
There is a small article with the headline, "Not Even the Most Famous Member of His Family!" which describes how Gordie's sister, Ruth, shook President Reagan's hand once. The article concludes with, "Even Gordie hasn't met the President...
...into some order and then "frame it to represent the world of the child." The set consists of red tubular scaffolding with connecting platforms. Around this are displayed the emblems of childhood: a red plastic baseball bat, a father's jacket, a mother's frying pan, a sister's dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated by everyone, and, above all, forced to exist...
Unfortunately, Lucy's day doesn't get any better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...
...Benedictine sister, Salerno was the most unconventional candidate in the city councilor race and she won big citywide. She was particularly popular in Boston's Mission Hill section, the North End and in the Back Bay, coming in first in all three of these precincts...