Word: tara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greg Lyss Julie SchragerJohn Coburn Quincy House: Southeast Yard:Tom Cronin Ben Broder Pam DoughmanFelicia Eckstein Ethan Cohon Buddy FletcherScott Falk Sarah Glimp Ki IngersolMichael Okwu Sesha Paratap Brian C. OffuttKirkland House: Warren Shlomchik Ray VasvariMark Eichorn Doug Winthrop Southwest Yard:Angela Ferry Paul BokotaAlison Harrington Maureen BroeMartin J.Herman Tara DealRebecca Rozen Mitchell Elkind Luke Fleckenstei
...real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When she says, after Burnett saves her from a suicide attempt...
...tempo of rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed between the film makers and the audience...
Virtually every blockbuster movie is a powerful fable of resilience. The audience finds vicarious strength watching Scarlett rebuild Tara, or Maria von Trapp spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned...
Second seed Maria Pe used a consistent backcourt game to easily dispose of Joanna Sleeper, 6-2, 6-1. She and Kaufman took it to Bridget Hiller and Tara Dunne, 6-3, 6-1, at the number-two doubles position...