Word: strangerness
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...furiously back and forth across the grimy patio behind a cramped bungalow in the Little Phnom Penh section of Long Beach, he saw a very different threat materializing -- within his own family. His 14-year-old son, gang-named Flipper, and another homeboy, Slicc, 18, were bragging to a stranger about a shoot...
...missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety of the town's truly provocative attractions: a first-class symphony orchestra, lively art galleries and museums, adventurous theater, special events like the biennial L.A. Arts Festival, a good Mexican dinner...
Even when misfortune befalls others, it is the woman who seems to bear the burden. In ABC's Stranger in the Family, a teenager is stricken with amnesia after an auto accident. But the drama focuses on his mother (Teri Garr) and her efforts to recapture her "lost" son. In CBS's My Son Johnny, Rick Schroder plays a small-time hood who has brutalized his younger brother from childhood. Again, Mom (Michele Lee) is the star sufferer: she is forced to recognize that she has raised...
...props and the people in order. Kind of like the narrator in Our Town. 'Course you know when King gets folksy it's his way of lulling you before he sets off a firecracker -- Whango! -- right in your ear. This time his explosive is one of them mysterious strangers who sneaks into Castle Rock, Maine, scene of two other King features, Cujo and The Dead Zone. This stranger is called Leland Gaunt, and he's proprietor of the new Needful Things curiosity shop. First customer: 11-year-old Brian Rusk. The item: an autographed Sandy Koufax baseball card. The price...
...Well" will have to become "awesome" to upset the Big Red. But this is the Ivy League, and stranger things have happened...