Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dreyfuss, who plays a fledgling inventor/author doubling as an elementary school security guard to make ends meet, comes up with some pretty witty lines. Susan Sarandon complements him, as the neurotic failure who flunks her state court reporting test seven consecutive times and is left by a high-school sweetheart to raise a son. And of course, there's the star of it all, Sarandon's neglected nine-year-old son (Will Wheaton), who brings the two unlikely lovers together...
...nobody there would want to marry your sister." The jokerman of the title, like many of Dylan's metaphorical protagonists, is part salvation hunter, part satanic twister, and the whole record is like a loosely arranged pilgrim's progress through emotional listlessness and political chaos. Sweetheart Like You, with a lovely and insinuating melody, takes the oldest cliche in the pickup book ("What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?") and works from a sexy come-on into an image of hell all the more effective for being surprising and funny...
Instead of the barracks, Alfonsin chose to enter law school in La Plata, where he first became active in the progressive Radical Civic Union Party. He was drawn to the party by its populist orientation and historic opposition to Argentina's landed oligarchy. After marrying his childhood sweetheart, Alfonsin began his career as a lawyer in Chascomus. He ran successfully for the provincial legislature in La Plata, then for the National Congress...
...Friede, president of Covici-Friede Corp., was convicted in Boston last week for violation of the Massachusetts statute forbidding distribution of objectionable literature. The book: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Its theme: how U. S. conventions and his own limitations caused a young man to murder his sweetheart...
...Granex type F-1 hybrid, a variety grown throughout the country. Grown elsewhere, however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should be pointed out that other localities, like Walla Walla, Wash., also produce a sweet onion. Tests have shown that the sugar content in the Vidalia is highest; it seems to have something to do with the mild climate and the paucity of sulfur...