Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same for Rita, Sue and Bob Too. The former (Siobhan Finneran and Michelle Holmes) baby-sit for the latter (George Costigan). When he drives them home after work, they chipperly take turns putting out for him. A minimum of romantic spirit and a maximum of haste mark these encounters. Monosyllabically written by Andrea Dunbar, directed with documentary flatness by Alan Clarke, this movie achieves a cinematic rarity: a perfect lack of grace. And thus a perfect match of style and subject. If we believed these figures were capable of rising above themselves and their drab surroundings, we would probably...
...Federal Judge Thomas Hull ruled for the families, ordering that their children be allowed to sit out the reading classes. He also ordered the school board to pay the families more than $50,000 in damages. In overturning the decision last week, Appellate Judge Pierce Lively wrote that Hull had failed to distinguish between simply reading or talking about other beliefs and being compelled to adopt them. "There was no evidence," Lively declared, "that the conduct required of the students was forbidden by their religion...
...firms. A recent study, by Massachusetts Actuaries Michael Cowell and Walter Hoskins, predicts that by the year 2000, AIDS-related deaths could cost life insurance companies up to $50 billion. Asks William Carroll, executive director of the Life Insurance Association of Massachusetts, an industry group: "Are we supposed to sit and wait for this flood of claims...
...citizenship was enacted. "Years ago," complains Virginia Kee, a high school teacher in New York's Chinatown, "they used to think you were Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. ; Then they thought you must own a laundry or restaurant. Now they think all we know how to do is sit in front of a computer." Says Thomas Law, a student at Brooklyn Law School: "We're sick and tired of being seen as the exotic Orientals...
...their respects, telling Ryan that his wife and young daughter are safely ensconced in Buckingham Palace and that he is now Sir John, a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. Then the Prince drops by, a little dejected at having been exposed to the world as a helpless victim. "Sit down, goddammit!" Ryan commands and proceeds to put some starch in the heir apparent's spine. Once the American hero recovers, he joins his family at the palace, where a lovely time...