Word: sook
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...manages to be intelligent as well as sentimental is a remake of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, which CBS will broadcast at 9 p.m. on Dec. 21. Based on the autobiographical story by Capote, it stars Patty Duke and is set in Alabama in the 1930s. Duke plays Sook, a childlike but loving old woman, who lives with her two sisters, her brother and her little cousin Buddy. Sook and Buddy (the adorable Eric Lloyd) are best friends. This relationship offends Sook's bossy, practical sister Jennie (Piper Laurie). They should be separated, Jennie decides, and Buddy must...
When you first see Duke and hear her speak her opening line, "Oh my, it's fruitcake weather," your heart sinks. Old-age makeup and a Southern accent--this means for sure that we're in for a wondrous, lovable eccentric. Fruitcake weather, indeed. Duke does play Sook with flibbertigibbet mugging and a sort of clown walk, but you see why this lonely, sensitive boy loves her, and by the time they have to part, you are almost as tearful as they both are. What is most admirable about A Christmas Memory is that the battle between responsibility and emotion...
...ruthless management of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program and terrorist activities, including the 1983 attack in Burma that killed a large part of the visiting South Korean Cabinet and a 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. And if someone gets in the way of his succession? Says Dae-Sook Suh, an expert on the Pyongyang regime at the University of Hawaii: "Kim Jong Il will have him killed right away...
When TIME covers earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, we portray ordinary people at a particularly harrowing point in their lives. This week's cover photo, for example, shows California nurse Hyun Sook Lee at a moment of the most tragic grief, learning of the death of her son in the Northridge earthquake. Rarely, though, do we follow up on such people's stories. What becomes of them months or years later, long after the immediate crisis has subsided...
Before an audience of 80 people, Dae-Sook Suh, director of the University of Hawaii's center for Korean studies, provided a sobering view of the prospect of Korean unification...