Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jennifer Divine plays the first of three main characters, Lily, the middle-aged mother of 12, Divine, who stunningly portrays the matron with an infectious warmth, savors her role, as her ever-present broad smile reflects the good-naturedness of her character. Practical needs spur Lily's participation in the illegal marches, we sympathize with her desires for a better life...
...sheds crocodile tears like a U.S. farmer. He is either crying about too much rain-or not enough. And he cries again when the harvest is so bountiful that it depresses the prices he gets. But when he examined his ledger over the winter, he usually had something to smile about: annual farm income often rose, and the value of land and machinery soared. No more. The tears flooding rural America this spring are genuine. Caught in a cashflow crunch, farmers are facing their bleakest year since the Depression...
...denounce the doctors who misdiagnosed her pregnancy, or argue with a sister, or even question the motives of her loving husband (Joseph Campanella, strong, caring and comfortable in the role). Then those translucent eyes can light with pain and determination. The mouth can fix in its querulous schoolgirl smile. The rage can break - and Redgrave come alive. It may not be Jean Brodie, but it is surely prime- By Richard Corliss
...USUM-for the use of-indicating that it is better to lend than to keep, that all life's gifts are transitory. Should we not follow the clerics? Or might we just for once summon our true feelings on this subject and, upon hearing the terrible question, smile back and speak from the heart: "Mind? I'll break your arm, you bastard...
Anderson: I think there's a latent instinct to the left in most students....to the extent that few students would have voted for Reagan, most students read Doonesbury and smile. There's a sense of passive knowledge about what things are about that's not that different from the collective awareness of the Sixties. The problem is there are other things that are more compelling that are on their minds.... You can't blame someone for wanting to get into a good professional school, to get into a good firm...