Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of their ambivalence toward home. Tyler's sympathies highlight, in particular, the eccentric habits of white middle America: middle-class, middle-aged individuals suspended between "Tips From the Beauty Stars" security measures and childish rebellion. When the glib young Julian, Macon's editor, sails into Macon's sister Rose's life, setting her spinster sensibilities spinning with soap opera fantasies, the rest of the family is threatened by the stranger's intentions to make himself at home...
...Ezra, whose nostalgia for family dinners inspires the idea to open The Homesick Restaurant, the Learys are sexless, neutral creatures whose homesick tendencies keep them permanently sheltered. Determined to save herself from a similarly myopic fate, Sarah bails out on a marriage run to entropy. The frustrated, impatient sister Penelope scornfully calls Macon "an armchair traveller," an Odysseus who can't even get up a sense of adventure...
...Sister Rita Hofbauer of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Silver Spring, Md., said that Malone's statement was "stronger than a lot we've been hearing," but doubted the role of women in the church would be a serious concern at the synod, since it is not a significant issue outside the West. Malone's document complained about poor communication between Rome and religious orders. It did not refer specifically, however, to the unsettled dispute between the Vatican and 24 U.S. sisters who last year signed a pro- choice newspaper advertisement on abortion. The Vatican has threatened...
...music industry is cashing in on shock value, and parents have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president of the NPTA. It is not only the W.A.S.P. who stand accused. It seems as though everyone is coming down on Judas Priest, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Twisted Sister and other metal machines. Madonna is being scrutinized. So is Sheena Easton, singing about her "sugar walls," and Sheila E., strutting her stuff. And Prince, going on about a girl masturbating with a magazine. And Michael Jackson...
...before the Senate Commerce Committee to thrash out rock's putative excesses. Gore faced at least one friendly face on the committee: her husband, the Democratic Senator from Tennessee. The opposition included such music-business figures as Rock Avant-Gardist Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Whatever their political effects, the hearings were certainly high on entertainment value...