Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RICHARD THOMPSON: AMNESIA (Capitol). He's a monster guitar player and a master songwriter, touching top form again on this brand-new album...
...first Nightmare, written and directed by Wes Craven, was a supple, evocative parable of vulnerability and triumph. Nancy Thompson (the splendid Heather Langenkamp) is isolated in adolescence. Her divorced parents are drunk or too distant; her friends are too weak to save themselves or her. So as in Psycho and Halloween, a young woman must act alone against evil. No man can defeat this creature with his strength; she must face him with her brains and purity. "These pictures are boot camps for the psyche," Craven says. "The only choice is to act or die. They are about kids' accepting...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Edward W. Desmond, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert jemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
...last-ditch effort, Thompson has filed a motion to "restore Sharon Kowalski to capacity," meaning to help her reach her full mental and physical potential. Two weeks ago, the court ordered that Sharon undergo a formal evaluation to see if she is capable of making decisions about her future. On the whole, the courts have not been sympathetic to Thompson's case. Most states favor blood relatives as guardians of unmarried disabled people, explains Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan...