Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drove their automobiles last November in defiance of tradition. The women, many of them teachers (one of the few professions open to females), were suspended from their jobs, plagued by anonymous phone calls, threatened with beheading by rabid Muslim preachers and denied permission to leave the - country. Like a stern but forgiving father, Fahd told the women he had to discipline them as he would his own daughters, but hinted that their punishment would soon end. Nonetheless, the issue of women's rights is likely to be deferred until the Consultative Council issue is settled...
Late thirtysomething and first mid-life crisis loom for three urban types lovingly played by Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby. What better cure for their variegated blues than a dude cattle drive? Joining with other frustrated fantasists, they move a herd from point A to point B under the supervision of a hilariously traditional cowman (Jack Palance). The script acknowledges a structural debt to Red River, but its spin is strictly Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: sharply turned observations on contemporary angst blended with agreeable sentiments by Parenthood's writers. O.K., it would be nice if this film...
...other major setback for the CCR came later in the spring, after what has come to be an annual rite--a sit-in Clark's office. Thirteen days after students occupied the Dean's office on April 10, Clark sent a stern letter to all students and faculty members warning that such "future disruptions" would lead to suspensions or even expulsions...
TRUTH OR DARE. Madonna, stern mistress of her own evolving image, invites the camera along on her Blond Ambition concert tour. This rude documentary, long but lots of fun, features star cameos by Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner and Sandra Bernhard...
...science is different, and the difference does define a kind of sanctity. Although we think of it as the most secular of human enterprises, there is a little-known spiritual side to science, with its own stern ethical implications. Through research, we seek to know that ultimate Other, which could be called Nature if the term didn't sound so tame and beaten, or God if the word weren't loaded with so much human hope and superstition. Think of it more neutrally as the nameless Subject of so much that happens, like the It in "It is raining": something...