Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's most articulate and charming characters. And, despite the anti-Communist theme, the film is a subtle refutation of Reagan-era optimism. These Americans, after all, are not can-do patriots but meek, dispirited folks who simply want to get along. "Just surviving," says Devin's sister (Christine Lahti). "No heroics, no strength of character, not even dignity...
...rites of any middle-class family anywhere -- watching TV on weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with rubber bands, spraying his friends with Pepsi at his elder sister's wedding and lining up with his schoolmates in a bright new uniform to greet a foreign dignitary with the cry of "Long life to Jacqueline Kennedy...
...unreason, May never tries to explain the horror. The real horror, he knows, is that it cannot be explained. Nor does he permit himself any self-pity or sensationalism. The first time he panicked throughout the long ordeal, he writes, was when he had to rush his pregnant sister to a hospital three days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones...
Frustrated by Reagan's immobility, the Vice President finally delivered a speech declaring bluntly what the battered President would not: the Administration had made serious mistakes. Afterward, congratulations poured in from Bush supporters around the country. At Hobe Sound, Fla., the Vice President's mother and sister had watched in approval. This time, they agreed, George did not sound like a cheerleader...
...accepted the invitation of the Japanese chef Shizuo Tsuji, a friend of 35 years and the founder and president of a cooking school for professionals in Osaka, to come to Japan and write an introduction to his cookbook Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art. She took along her sister and recalls the darker side of being a woman in Japan. "I would work all day long in the school, thinking only of going out in the evening and how I would be able to get up off the floor after dinner. My sister and I were the only women...