Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French Quarter, filled with thousands of convention goers, hosts eager businessmen who stand on city sidewalks, luring Republicans inside. Outside a bar boasting "the only female impersonators in the Quarter," a bouncer wears a "Make Vice President Bush President Bush" button...
Doublecrossing and savagery are the ingredients of this plot, and the only thoroughly likeable character is a Viennese expatriate (Helen Miorren), who supplies arms to the Greek rebels seeking to overthrow the Ottomans. The Pasha is greedy, his minister conniving and threatening to those who stand in his way. His Turkish subjects are best described by their predilection for sacrificing sheep. One scene shows a man selling knives used for this purpose, with an American woman shrinking in horror at the thought of this barbarity. And later in the film, the title character sees such a sacrifice and recoils...
Never mind a candidate's stand on the issues, Sheehy warns us. After all, she argues, the issues have become increasingly diffuse, "too complicated to submit to clever political slogans." The parties have become virtually interchangeable. The candidates themselves are often big on rhetoric but thin on specifics, preferring instead to stake out popular, non-controversial positions (opposing new taxes and "big government" while supporting patriotism, "good jobs at good wages", and a "war on drugs...
...glosses glow at the start of each class. An open locker door reveals a picture of a sunset with these words underneath: "Let's get drunk and go to heaven." A few kids kiss amid the shuffling crowd. Over the decades the smooching pose has not changed: girls stand nonchalantly as boys, elbow bent against the locker, shield the stolen kiss from view...
...whom she was especially close in the pre-Leonard days. Since Bianca and Sherri moved, Bianca's affections have shifted in the direction of her mother. Last November Bianca wrote in her school journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more as sisters than as mother and daughter...