Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...
...commanding officer permits "sleep-ins" in a combat zone. No commanding officer fails to permit sentries to have loaded weapons. No commanding officer fails to secure adequately all approaches to a vulnerable position. The commanding officers in Beirut failed in their responsibilities to their men, their President and their country...
These achievements are often against incredible odds. Eileen Harris, 32, a telephone operator from Springfield for the past 14 years, works the 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift, grabs a few hours of sleep, gets her children off to school, then drives 18 miles to class. Says Rothman: "The Adas are not more intelligent than the traditional undergraduate, just more highly motivated." Explains Beverly Donovan, 31 , a divorced mother of two children who is on welfare: "It's very clear to me that I'm going to have to be making money and supporting myself and my children...
...year before, the Harvard Band, bent on allowing the Elis as little sleep as possible, marched throught he streets of the City of Elms playing at full volume. The concert took place at 3 a.m. on the day of the Game, which apparently violated some city ordinance, landing the entire ensemble in the New Haven jail...
Directors who make movies that are "ripped from today's headlines" must tread a narrow, tortuous path. Pay attention to all the political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit of Hong Kong's Ann Hui, the 36-year-old director of Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that...